Happy Mother’s Day!

I woke up to breakfast in bed today, courtesy of Peter, C and Kelsey.  Nicholas helped by taking a break from his breakfast so I could eat without eating over him.  It was a lovely meal of French toast, Pete’s famous potatoes, reallly crispy bacon & coffee.

The girls insisted I open my presents right away.  Both girls had made cards at school and C made me a napkin holder shaped like a flower.  Kelsey joined Pete in giving me my own seltzer maker!  I gave up soda (Coke, etc.) two years ago for Lent and with a few exceptions during my pregnancy, haven’t had any since.  I found that seltzer with lemon or lime is just as refreshing and has the added benefits of no caffeine or sugar.

Oddly enough, I saw one on a blog on Thursday and thought about asking for one for my birthday.  We can get bottled seltzer here, but I hate the wasting so much plastic on something that doesn’t last very long. Now if I could just get one that makes Coke Zero for Pete!  In other thoughts…

Go, C!  Today she casually mentioned to me that her swim teacher had asked her to move up a level.  I had been hoping for this development as she has been working so hard since her first lesson this term.  She had wanted a break last fall, and had one in more than one way, as we all know.  However, when the spring term began, she suddenly regained interest and asked to join the class for her age group.

The teachers had been impressed with her work and apparently decided last week she could move forward.  She is a little nervous about it being ‘too hard’, but the teacher thinks she will do just fine and so do we.  We are really hoping swimming becomes her sport, as she really enjoys it and it is such good exercise and really requires very little equipment.

Oh, and don’t want to forget to display the gift C wrapped and gave to me ‘early’ yesterday.