Thursday, May 5, 2011

Alternative Mother's Day

As per standard military lifestyle antics, we had to celebrate Mothers Day on an alternative date this year (Erik will be gone flying one of the jets to a New Orleans air show this weekend). So today was Mothers Day in the Halvorson household. I heart random holidays!

My morning was nice and leisurely as Erik handled the baby boy in the morning so I could relax for an extra half hour in bed. It. was. awesome. After an internal battle of whether or not to stay upon the fluffy heaven of the mattress, I decided to emerge out of the bedroom to join my family. And I'm glad I did because my favorite type of donuts were available for consumption (1 for Erik, 2 for me!).


After reading some funny Hallmark thoughts from Hubby and Baby, I had fun opening up the packages. The first gift was the Zumba dance workout game for the PS3. I ironically opened it while I was finishing my second donut.


My other gifts were an Iced Tea Maker and a reusable iced beverage cup and straw. I love using straws and I consume a crap ton of iced tea (UNsweetened!) in the warm weather... so the gifts were perfect. I'll walk around the house kinda' looking like Nancy Botwin.


I'm super excited to read the new Tina Fey book that my dad sent. It wasn't even planned, but it arrived with perfect timing on our alternative date of celebration.

The evening was wrapped up with a steak dinner prepared by Erik and a dessert of cake and Snickers ice cream. I saved the ice cream for wallowing while we miss him this weekend.

Whenever and however you celebrate,
Happy Mothers Day to all the mommas out there!

2 comments:

Jessica said...

"I'll walk around the house kinda' looking like Nancy Botwin." Please don't tell me you are going to take to wearing age inappropriate clothes and sleeping with your brother-in-law.

Kate H said...

Alas, I think the straw chewing will probably be where the similarity ends. And I'd like to think I'm less annoying about it [I loved the episode when Andy smacked her cup out of her hands - pure joy].