Mother's Day 2009 and 2008

Mother's Day 2009

Mother's Day 2008

The difference a year makes! I just took the opportunity to look through my Flickr photos to see what we did for Mother's Day last year. WOW, look at the difference a year makes! Emily was just trying out her walking legs. We spent last Mother's Day in Rochester and now I clearly remember what we did. We cleaned out the Dockerty Family Attic! John, Diane, Sheli and Mike had a lot of memories in that attic so they had a lot of fun going through old things. Tony and I played with the kids for the most part, if I recall the weather was a bit dreary but not horrible. I'm having a Mom moment here realizing how much Emily has changed in the last year! She was definitely still a baby last Mother's day this year I'm afraid she is quite the toddler with the toddler personality to boot! At 10 am this morning I called my Mom to wish her a happy Mother's day and reported that no one gave Emily the memo that she was suppose to be nice to her Mom today! We will see how the rest of the day goes.

Mother's Day 2009

Thanks to Mike and the kids I had a fantastic Mother's day weekend. My Mother's Day gift was having family photos taken and while they lost 1/2 the pictures we did manage to get a few good ones, which you will have to see in a future post as I do not have them yet. The photos of me above are of me just before our photo session. I had my own modeling moment, sometimes its nice for a Mom to feel pretty! So we were suppose to have the entire Dockerty and Telschow clan over for a Buca dinner tonight but John and Diane missed their flight home from Florida so we have to reschedule. Luckily, Sheli called to give us the news exactly two seconds before I hit the"place my order" button for loads of Buca take out! Seriously, I had the credit card number entered and everything! Now we just have a GIANT cookie cake to eat ourselves, and with my love of chocolate chip cookies it shouldn't be too much of a problem!

Ben's perfect Mother's Day gift to me was a flower pot he painted and he wanted to write "Mom" on it only he wrote "Mow" which I think is just priceless! He also painted a popsicle frame and put a nice head shot of him in it. In our photo above it is quite funny as he holds the photo over his face and it works perfectly!

Today was a great day it may not have turned out as planned but I enjoyed every minute of it. I was able to do so many things including, getting a manicure, enjoying a nice swim workout at the YMCA, finally locating the next book for book club "I was a really good Mom before I had kids" and organizing the laundry room! I must say when you ask for help finding that book on Mother's Day it does bring about a few chuckles. How could I forget Emily's gift to me was for the second day in a row to nap in her own bed!

We are now finishing up our Mother's day dinner of my favorite Chinese take out (PF Chang's). What a beautiful weekend and now I have a GIANT cookie to attend to!