Mother's Day

We had a perfect Mother's Day. Mother's Day is a semi-strange day for me. I think it is probably true for a lot of adoptive moms. And I think it is probably true for a lot of moms in all sorts of scenarios. For me, Mother's Day always reminds me of my first Mother's Day. My first Mother's Day was also Kyle and Owen's first birthday. It just happened to fall on the same day. We also (purposefully) had the boys baptized on that day. It was very, very emotional day for me on so, so many levels. So now, on Mother's Day I can't help thinking about that first Mother's Day --- about their birthmother ("Mothers" Day), about their baptism day (their baptism was so, so symbolic for me), and about their first birthday (a huge marker in time for our family for a lot of substantial reasons). I also think a lot about waiting mothers on Mother's Day -- mom's who don't have their children yet because their adoptions are still in process. I can't help but remember the heart-break I felt during that time. Last year we were on vacation for my second Mother's Day and we didn't really "celebrate" it in any real way. So, this year was kind of a big Mother's Day for me. It was the first time we really "did" Mother's Day. Braydon made it perfect. The day started with the baby boys giving me an awesome new sports watch and my husband-partner giving me a beautiful new dress watch. We then went to New Hope and had brunch in our favorite brunch spot, fed the ducks, walked around. The boys took a nice long nap in the car on the way home (a rare treat!), and we spent the rest of the day playing in the yard. I think my favorite part of the day (well, second-favorite... my favorite part of the day was drinking a spicy bloody mary and sharing a huge pile of peel-and-eat shrimp with Braydon on the restaurant patio at brunch...) was after we had eaten brunch our server presented us with a plate full of very fancy desserts. Braydon and I aren't big sweets fans. But watching Kyle and Owen pass that plate back-and-forth between them was really precious!