The fun didn't stop after the aquatic center. I love Olive Garden but I never want to go out to eat on mother's day because I don't want to be in the crazy crowds so every year we do Olive Garden to go and order the whole spread and bring it home. Its a tradition that I love. This year we got home from swimming and the kids were doing a lot of giggling and whispering as they hurried and changed. Avery and Emma brought me into my room where they had a pillow and blanket on my bed and the laptop all set up. "Okay mom, you just relax here while we take care of dinner" they said as they pushed me towards the bed, urging me to lay down and rest. Giggling they headed for the door, "you take a rest or go on Pinterest for awhile" Ave added and then closed the door. I figured it was good advice. I laid down and started my pinterest browsing in the quiet of my room, completely relaxed and found myself drifting off to the sounds of clanking dishes and pans in the kitchen. Forty five minutes later the door opened and Em was shaking my arm and putting her face about an inch from mine. "C'mon mom its time for dinner!!" she said excitedly. I walked out to a sweet sight of these four standing around the table lit with candles and pink lemonade in fancy glasses....
Avery had an apron on and welcomed me to olive garden and took my order. Within seconds my mozzarella stick appetizer had arrived and I was enjoying it with marinara when Hunter came over with a huge bowl of salad that was the closest salad to the actual olive garden with the large rings of onion, olives etc. etc. that I have ever had. They had bought the actual Olive Garden bottled salad dressing which is my favorite. It was the best salad. I had three helpings. Only a few bites into my salad and soon arrived Emma with a basket of bread sticks and put one on my plate. She grinned at me and then took a few steps to the side watching me. I had only taken about three
bites of it when she suddenly was right next to me again. "Ma'am would you like more bread? she asked and before I could reply with not quite yet she had already laid another out on my plate and resumed her watching spot. Hahaha. Deke brought over the main course of shrimp scampi and it was really good. Then the kids all sat down and we ate together. The kids had made me cute little notes to go around my placemat. Hunter's made me giggle, it says, to mom: my never ending rainbow of inspiration.
Then deke and the kids went around and talked about their favorite food mom makes and their favorite thing to do with mom and what they love about mom. Yep I cried. For dessert we had made a new homemade monkey bread recipe. So fattening, so worth it. We spent the rest of the evening playing games as a family.
The next morning which actually was mother's day, Deke didn't have to be to work until ten and so we decided to sleep in again. I was sleeping soundly when suddenly I heard knocking. I sat up startled because #1 we always open our door right before we go to sleep and #2 the kids never knock they just come in, I was worried. "Happy mother's day mom!!" I heard them say as they walked in with a breakfast tray and an interesting smell hit my nose. They had cooked something. Deke sat up next to me. Okay, they had cooked something on their own...for the first time....not in the microwave, with the oven. Deke who by this time was wide awake got my look of, did you know this was happening? "Try it mom, try it" they said waiting. Hunter had cooked scrambled eggs for the first time on his own and didn't leave any shells in and didn't burn them. I went to take a bite and the smell sent a wave of nausea through me. What was that smell. As I tried to determine Hunter started in, "I made you some scrambled eggs and cooked them at a number six just like you do mom. I wanted to do something a little fancier so I added some spices in there for you" the eggs hit my tongue, what was that taste? "I added some basil and nutmeg to them, I tried them and they are just delicious." Nutmeg. That's what I'm tasting. Large wave of nausea. Willing myself to keep them down and swallow Avery quickly urged me on to the toast she had made which again was not burnt just covered in giant glops of jelly. I smiled and moved onto the fruit salad where I ate the apples and then stopped when I realized I hadn't bought a pineapple that week at the store. "Where did you guys find the pineapple?" I asked, "Oh it was back in the very back of the fridge behind a whole bunch of stuff. Yep. That was missed when the fridge got cleaned out, it is definitely old. Not touching it. Bless their hearts they had done such a good job and were so proud of themselves. Hunter lined them all up and they each had cards and presents for me. It was really neat to see Hunter gather them all together like that even without deke to make sure and do those things to make my day special. I will NEVER forget this breakfast in bed ever, it was so sweet. But in all reality I did take the eggs to the bathroom and flush them down the toilet because throwing up is just not fun.
Deke had taken Avery and Emma to buy me a couple of pairs of really cute new flip flops since they are the only shoes I will wear for the next four months. Hunter made me a recipe card holder and attached a cipher wheel with a page full of secret mother's day messages that I got to decode. It was really cute.
He also made me a "bio bottle" with a little plant inside. The plant lives and thrives inside the bottle. I loved these both because they are so Hunter.
We went to church and Emma made this cute little flower can for me in Sunbeams. The rest of the day the kids made me pictures and did performances for me. We played all day. I think I smiled for the entire two days. I went to go to bed and just kept thinking about sitting at the table that night in candlelight with a delicious homemade dinner and my babies going around telling stories and talking about why they love me, coming over and sitting on my lap and giving me squeezes. Hudson planting baby smooshy kisses on my cheeks. Is there really anything better than that? They know how to love so perfectly. They are so amazing. I love being their mom so much. It brings me a joy and fulfillment that I have never felt anything else like in my life. So much joy.
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