10th May - Happy Mother's Day!

Today was Mother's Day here in Australia which kicked off in spectacular style with Long Legs shouting down the X-Box at his friend whilst they played a racing car game at 6.30am!  I, at this point, had forgotten what day it was but thankfully the husband hadn't and up he jumped.  I slept a couple of hours longer until Long Legs came down and shook my bed.  I kept my eyes closed and pretended to be asleep.  He made a pretend fart noise.  Eyes were tight.  He made some other kind of noises and then gave up and left.

I heard the husband ask if he'd come down to Mummy and woken her up and heard his shocked reply of 'noooooooooo' with a tone of 'as if I would do such a thing Daddy'!  The Short One appeared shortly after, I opened one eye, looked at him, looked at the clock and decided to give up this pretending to be asleep business.  I was prepared to let the fun begin.  I am yet to be the type of mother who has her children make her breakfast in bed by their own hands so I take what they can give me!  I actually can't wait for the day I get cold, burnt toast and a milky, cold cup of coffee.

The Short One had insisted on writing a list of things I would like, which were then given to me with a few surprises and he was effusive with love on a card.  I knew I'd be able to cash in on the 'Mother's Day chips' with him and asked for some more milk for my coffee which I was having in bed.  Long Legs drew me a picture which I'll take as a sign of his love and then he cleared off back to his X-Box! 

I did later insist on Long Legs making me a fried egg for brunch.  He asked a couple of weeks ago if he could cook himself egg on toast.  After my initial knee-jerk reaction - you near hot flames - are you kidding me!? I decided yes, ok.  About time you learned to cook something so if I drop dead tonight I know you will at least not starve and can live on egg on toast for the rest of your life.  So today I tried to plant the seed of what he can do for his mother as a future treat.    

I did, however, rather foolishly during a discussion about the whole point of Mother's Day (after being asked to do things for them that they are quite capable of doing for themselves at the best of times, never mind on a day when they should be doing things for me) suggest ways in which they could do things for me.  The Short One burst into tears because he'd asked to make me toast and Daddy had said no.  Husband does not remember this event occurring.  I said, it's ok you can make me some another day.  To which he replied, no, I could only do it today, it's only a special day once.  Fair enough.  Note to husband, next year get Long Legs to make me an egg and get the Short One to make the toast!

I also insisted that I did not have a solo trip to the cinema again, after my husband suggested such a thing, when I said The Sound Of Music was showing as a special 50th anniversary Mother's Day screening.  Nope, I said, you are all coming with me!  This was perhaps not such a wise move after all.  This is a long film, something you don't perhaps notice at home when children can eat when they want and move about.  However, when there are lots of quiet, serious moments and your children insist on eating the whole way through the film, you tend to get a bit stressed at the sound of crunching and packet rustling and chair rocking.  The husband tried on his shades just before the film started 'just in case the lights got too bright'.  I'm very proud of him as he only in fact missed about 5 minutes when the lights 'got too bright'.

Having a birthday so close to Mother's Day is that the husband gets a bit worn out with all the pampering.  I had to run my own bath tonight and I don't think he'd even noticed as he was too busy watching the F1 on TV.  But at least this is it now.  My two special days of the year goneski.  Now we can get back to normal :)  Til tomorrow x