Happy Mother's Day

Monday: Leftover Curry Pasta
Tuesday: Burritos
Wednesday: Chickpea Piccata
Thursday: Tuna Pitas
Friday: Pizza
Saturday: Out for Chinese Food
Sunday: Halibut, Garlic Mash, Sauteed Veggies, Salad, Bread and Lemon Meringue Pie

Leftover Curry Pasta
Harper's birthday is coming up next week and so today I asked her if there was anything she wanted for her birthday. She said, "I aweady found it in the magazine." Unfortunately we had already gotten rid of the fliers and so I asked her what it was. "Mmmmm, it's bweu." "It's blue? Is it a doll? a car? a train? a toy for outside?" "Mmmmm, it's bweu and I weally wiked it." "Unhun...maybe mommy and daddy will just surprise you with something fun!" "Mmmmm, something bweu?" "Sure."

Recipe
We had lots of leftover pasta from last night and so that's what we had for dinner.

Burritos
Today was Hannah's first soccer game. She missed the actual first one last week and was very excited to get out there tonight. It was close, but we are much too disorganized to have enough time to walk so we all drove to the field that was two minutes away from our house. Hannah played goal and ran around on the field with a great big smile on her face and a few excited gallops. Harper of course spent most of her time on the play structure. She was climbing these red bars and murmuring to herself, "Steady, steady, steady, steady," as she climbed. Once she got to the top she threw her arms up in the air and declared, "I did it!"

Recipe

If you read last week's blog you know I made black bean salsa and I still had a large bowl of it in the fridge so I sauteed an onion in a little olive oil and added 2 Tbsp chili spice and 3 cloves of garlic. Once the onion was soft I added the black bean salsa and a 28oz can of tomatoes, diced. I let it simmer for 20 minutes and then scooped it into warm wraps with cheese, sour cream, banana peppers, cilantro and green salsa. - Yummy!

Chickpea Piccata
Hannah's two front teeth have been loose for quite awhile. For the past couple weeks they've been so loose that they are hanging off to the side giving her a bit of a gremlin smile (this is not helped by the fact that one of them is chipped from a bike accident a couple years ago). I don't know why, but they have been driving me crazy I just want to yank them out (not to hurt her, in the same way you want to pop a whitehead no matter who it's on or how repulsive it is - not that I find her teeth at all repulsive...I'm just going to move on now). Tonight she finally lost on of them and suddenly I realized that she was going to get big teeth in front, right out in front and there would be no denying that she was going to turn into a big kid, sigh.

Harper looked at her and said, "Hannah, you wook funny with that hole in your mouth!"

Recipe
I was feeling very off this evening and slept most of it away so Dave made Chickpea Piccata for dinner found here.

Tuna Pitas
Harper called out at about five this morning and so I crept into her room and laid down beside her, calmed her down and then prayed to the sleep fairies to take her back to sleep! They actually took her back to sleep, usually they're not home when I call upon them at five am. Anyway, so I fell asleep next to her until I opened my eyes to find her little face pressed up against mine, nose to nose and heard this, "IaweadyknowwhatIhavingforyunch,peanutbutterandbananasandwichandisitmorning?" When I half looked at her, she yelled, "I sa-id is it morning!?" and morning it was.

It was beautiful, we went to the park and Hannah dazzled me with acrobatics!

Recipe
School bus, swimming, eat, soccer. Yeah, tuna on pitas is pretty much all I had time for today.

Pizza
The girls are so excited for Mother's Day. They have been working away on something with Dave all week and keeping the secret pretty well too. Today when Hannah got off the bus she immediately said to me, "Mom don't look in my bag, unless you want to ruin your Mother's Day surprise. Which I don't think you do, because that wouldn't be very much fun, everyone likes to be surprised, well maybe not everyone...but most. I kno-ow you do." Harper chirped in later, "We are making you a pwesent for Mother's Day and I not tell you what it is, but it's not a puppet!" They are so funny, but have not yet let it slip...unless it's a puppet.

Recipe
We topped our pizza with olives, mushrooms, onions, roasted red peppers and mozzarella cheese.

Out For Chinese Food
I had one of those days where I felt productive all day in the best kind of way. I got so much done and still had time to hang out with my kids, even taking them to the park near our old house where Hannah's been asking to go for weeks. It's odd how some days I can try and get the same things done and I can't get past a load of laundry and by bed time I feel like I've barely seen the kids and other days it all just clicks.

Recipe
My mom called to see if we wanted to go out for dinner with them and my Grandma tonight. You know, we rarely take the kids to restaurants (we don't eat out ourselves very often either), they were so excited even though Harper could barely keep her eyes open the entire time we were there.

Halibut, Garlic Mash, Sauteed Veggies, Salad, Bread and Lemon Meringue Pie
My sister, niece and brother in law arrived late last night from Australia and now all's right in my world. They came in around midnight last night and I had told my mom to give us a call in the morning when everyone was up and relaxed and ready for visitors. Hannah and Harper asked every five to ten minutes if it was time to go see Ruby, my niece. When it was finally time to go over we walked down the street and Ruby was waiting on the front lawn. When she saw the girls and they saw her they ran toward each other slowed up, circled each other a bit, said hello and then fell right into step from last year as if we'd seen them yesterday. They played the whole day together. We headed to a little neighborhood fair in the afternoon where we saw more cousins and the kids rode some rides.



Enjoying some rides.

Heading home from the fair.

Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there! I was spoiled today the girls made me this beautiful owl with Dave's help top watch over me and keep me safe. Harper did the gluing and Hannah did all the sewing and stitching. I love her! I love how excited the kids get about celebrating Mother and Father's day!

I hope that you all had a wonderful Mother's Day. I've been having trouble thinking about something to say about my mom. Not because I'm short on wonderful things to say about her, but because I don't want it to sound cliche or hallmark cardish. She deserves more than that. I feel like I can't put it very eloquently but, she's an amazing mom. She has always made me feel loved, supported and important to her. She is the most thoughtful person I have ever met and I am so, so grateful and blessed to have her.

I hope the sun shines down on you this week!