Happy Mother's Day

but it's kinda hard to get breakfast in bed when you are the first one up in the morning...

did you invent the wheel too?

increasingly C comes home with a new joke or "trick" you know like sneezing a word or something equally hilarious that he is claiming as his own or one of his friends. You know the stuff that was going on when we were in grammar school. Not exactly ground breaking stuff going on but hysterical to a 3rd grader. However last night he came to me requesting pancakes & sausage next weekend and this great new chocolate paste you can buy at Target..The child was trying to tell ME about nutella....
new?! ha! as if buddy but yes Mommy will pick some up for this weekend.

saturday breakfast

growing up we would always go out to breakfast on Saturdays and I miss that! We would go to the diner-and boy do I miss those living in the South-my brother I would sit on either side on the booth and feed quarters into the jukebox courtesy of our grandmother and enjoy our pancakes or french toast. When we got older my parents found a new haunt(and yes Chris you guys should go next time you are in Dbury)where you can still find them each and every Saturday. It is always a highlight of the trip up North although I wonder if is more family tradition than anything else because while my brother & I will always get up & drag kids along our spouses always prefer to sleep in. For years now poor C always tries to order biscuits, he does not understand the North/South divide just yet.
I keep thinking we need to start getting up and going to breakfast but for some reason on the weeks we have nothing going on we are very lazy on Saturdays and breakfast is pretty far from an organized event. Maybe next weekend...

first day of school

his first at the Intermediate School no less! I reminded him about 10 dozen times to stay on the bus when they got to the Primary School and as I have not gotten a frantic phone call I am assuming he remembered-he does have friends on the bus so it really wasn't a huge concern. C complained of a sore throat off & on yesterday and had an ever so slight fever but a shot of tylenol & early bed time he was right as rain this morning. D reminded me the boy had the same sort of minor illness after the day camp sleepover last year so just need to file that info away for next year and tylenol him before the sleepover perhaps. Surprisingly he got right up this morning still stumbling a bit but he stumbled into the kitchen fully dressed and raring to go. I even made sausage & eggs for my baby-biscuits too although they were the microwave kind. His fancy new wrestling backpack has not arrived yet so I loaned him mine for the time being and his Yankees lunchbox was bursting at the seams with food for a growing boy. The bus did come at the correct time, there was some concern because I could not get the information to come up on the school website yesterday or this morning but 6.49 and it was there. One of the girls going into 4th grade informed C his teacher was hard & mean so I can't wait to hear his take on things. I am however sure it will be fine he is mostly a really good kid & a good student.
and I didn't even cry we all know what an absolute sentimental sap I am about this stuff so I was proud of myself-welled up a little but no real tears this year!

indulgent for brekafast but

stuffed french toast with fresh peaches & strawberries super yummo!
If it's Saturday morning you can find my parents at the same restaurant each week in fact they mentioned last night one of my mom's students tracked her down & called her there one weekend-she has a cell that is rarely on and rarely used we still are not quite sure why she has the thing but to each his or her own.
Trips to Danbury always include at least one visit to the Trellis but we managed to sneak one more trip in today as we were up early to see Dad off-he had to work so we were up at 7.30!
and to think I was so proud I had scheduled an afternoon flight so we wouldn't have to get up early on our last day...