Recording Mother's Day

11 days later I'd like to share my Mother's Day with you. I don't have any pictures to remember the day, so recording it here felt important. Who wants to forget their second Mother's Day?

The day started with a present delivered by a VERY excited Brian. I just love how he knows when things are special, he makes it so much more. Inside was a baby height chart from Kikki-K. I'd been wanting to record Brian's growth for a while and ironically had picked up (looked at, not purchased) the same chart in a store only 3 days earlier. Next Brian, still very excited brought in a card, which was from Kevin and very sweet.

Kevin had to spend the day working on uni assignments and left the house early. I worked like a mad woman and made a special picnic lunch for my Mum, attended by Mum, Dad, Shane, Brian and I. We headed to a very popular park not to far from my parent's place, only to find it insanely busy and not a parking space in sight. We then headed down to the river and found a nice little park with play equipment for Brian.

I served sandwiches filled with:

• Seasoned turkey & cranberry and caramelised red onion chutney
• Cucumber & my famous ricotta/pesto spread
• Ham, cheese & mustard pickles
• Tomato, pepper & cream cheese
• Smoked salmon & lemon and herbed cream cheese

Followed by fresh paw paw spinkled with freshly grated coconut. To drink was a pineapple mint slushy, making a comeback after success at a previous picnic. And we finished with a Pumpkin Toffee Cake freshly baked by a friend, who sold this among many other yummy cakes at her first ever market stall the day before.

We all had a great day, although I'm sure Kevin would have preferred to spend his elsewhere = )