Happy Friday! I’m excited for the weekend because I’m heading to my parents’ house today to spend the night and enjoy a girls’ day with my mom, tomorrow. We are getting pedicures and then doing some shopping, one of our favorite things to do together! My husband and Keenan are heading to his parents’ house later today to spend the day with his mom, tomorrow. When we first got married, we established a tradition of spending the entire weekend with our own moms. Now that we have Keenan, we spend the day before with our respective mothers, and on Mother’s Day, it is just the three of us.
My husband asked me what I wanted to do on Sunday, and since the weather has been so nice, lately (not too hot yet), I thought it would be fun to take a day trip to a small town near us, ride bikes around the lake there, and have a picnic. Oh, and before we head out, we are planning to stop by Doughbot, a gourmet doughnut shop in downtown Sacramento that serves unique flavors such as s’more, carrot cake, berry cheesecake, dulce de leche, creme brulee, lemon lavender, peanut butter and jelly, rosemary lemon poppy, cacao, maple bacon and chocolate bacon. They even serve vegan doughnuts. I’m not typically a doughnut fan (especially that they are not the healthiest treat), but after reading an article about them recently, I was very intrigued! It’s Mother’s Day, so why not allow myself to splurge a little?
Since it’s the end of the week, it is time for Friday Favorites! In honor of Mother’s Day, I thought it would be fun to do something different this week. Instead of sharing favorite moments and eats from the week, let’s share five favorite things about our moms and our five favorite mommy moments! I hope you will join me and link up below!
Five Favorite Things About My Mom:
1. Her big heart and always being there to listen, offer advice and support.
2. Her love for shopping (which she passed on to me!).
3. Her pasta sauce, chicken scallopini and pies (I really love all of her cooking and baking!).
4. Being a wonderful Nonna to Keenan and my nieces. They all love her so much!
5. Being a tremendous role model of what I aspire to be, both as a mother and a leader in her community. She always stands up for what is right and doesn’t let anything get in her way.
Five Favorite Mommy Moments:
1. Snuggling with Keenan in his new toddler bed and telling him a story before he goes to sleep (at least attempts to, since we are still working on our bedtime issues!).
2. Listening to Keenan talk to his critters, telling them the same things that my husband and I tell him, such as always saying please and thank you, stay in bed, go to sleep and you always have to wash your hands after going potty!
3. Singing, playing music and dancing together. Speaking of, as I was finishing the dishes and Keenan was playing yesterday morning, we were singing some of his songs from music class and I had to record this.
4. Being the “tickle monster” and hearing Keenan’s belly laugh.
5. My heart melting when I hear Keenan say, “I love you, Mommy!”
It’s your turn! Link up with five favorite things about your mom and/or your five favorite mommy moments, or share them in the comments below! Have a Happy Mother’s Day!
Awwww . . . this warmed my heart. Sounds like you have a wonderful mother. Happy Mother’s Day to you!! Keenan is one lucky boy!!
Thanks, Michelle!
I love this, your mom sounds awesome! My favorite thing about my mom is her sense of humor. She is very quiet and reserved but she loves to laugh and I love to make her laugh. I used to always try to embarrass her in public, and she never fell for it, she always laughed along and played along with the joke. I hope to be like that with Jack when he gets older.
Thanks, Angela! I love that you enjoy making your mom laugh! I like doing that to my mom, too! Having a good sense of humor is SO important. I hope you had a nice Mother’s Day!
what a adorable post 🙂 Happy Mothers Day!!!
Thank you!
This post just brought the biggest smile to my face, as usual! I wish we lived closer to one another and I could come watch your little love bug so you and the hubs could have a date night. Whenever I used to babysit, hearing the little guy or girls giggle when being tickled always warmed my heart! It’s just the cutest darn thing.
Have the most wonderful Mother’s Day
<3
p.s. I'll be mentioning your Liebster Award on Monday for my MIMM post
Awe, thanks, Jessie! Your are so sweet! It would just be fun to live closer to be able to meet-up in person, but babysitting does sound good! 🙂
What a lovely tradition with your mom! Happy Mother’s Day to both of you!
Thanks, Michelle! I hope you had a nice Mother’s Day!
What a wonderful way to celebrate Mother’s Day!
We had a lot of fun! It was fabulous weekend!
Awww, so precious! Happy Mother’s Day! I hope you have a great weekend getting pampered with your mama and you BETTER think of me as your sinking your teeth into one of those delicious-sounding doughnuts! Omg, I could never chose!!
Thanks! We had a wonderful weekend and those doughnuts were SOOOOO good! I’m still thinking about them! 🙂
You’re everything I could ever want in a daughter. You made me smile from the heart which you know what that means… eyes full of tears for being so lucky. I love you forever and always. Happy Mother’s Day to a pretty awesome mom herself.
Love,
mom/nonna
Love you, mom!
If only I had seen this post previously! I would have loved to link-up. You have such a beautiful family. Happy Mother’s Day!
Thanks, Brittany! I hope you will visit again! You are always welcome to join in on the link-up every Friday for Friday Favorites!
I love this post. It is really neat to see what you love about your mom , and what you love about BEING a mom. 🙂 I don’t have kids yet, but I love the feeling of when a baby or toddler falls asleep after reading to them. It is the sweetest feeling! 🙂
Thank you, Kalee! When a baby or toddler falls asleep in your arms, it is the best feeling! Now that Keenan is almost three, it doesn’t happen too often, but when it does, I cherish it!