Happy Mother's Day

It's Mother's Day which should make me absolutely thrilled, except I haven't spoken with my own mother yet! Oh well I'm bound to get ahold of her later today. I woke up at 6am this morning to find that the rest of the house was still asleep. When she woke up, Caitlin graced me with her lovely presence and then continued to make my day better by giving me a plaster hand print with her name toothpick carved into and a card written in Spanish. I was thrilled until she wouldn't translate and I can't read Spanish! Well I'm still thrilled, I just don't actually know what the card says yet. I guess it's time to pull out Google Translator. My plan had been to go to church this morning, but then Ryan informed me that we were supposed to be at his brothers house at 11am (which is only a 1/2 an hour after church starts) for Mother's Day Brunch with his sister and mom. I knew about and agreed to go to the brunch, but I'd been told that we needed to be there at 12-12.30. Ugh, it be nice if everyone could get on the same page when making plans. So around ten I started getting dressed and curling my hair *for the second day in a row!* when Caitlin walked in and asked me to curl her hair too. I was feeling especially blessed because Caitlin never wants me to do her hair and she won't let me anywhere near her head with a curling iron because the first time I tried to curl her hair I accidentally burned her. Sheesh kid its not like I meant too and it was like 3 years ago! Well we should have left by 10.30am to get to Matt's house by 11 and we didn't leave our house until 12.20pm because it took that long to get her hair and my hair curled. See this is why I don't do my hair-EVER. It shouldn't take 2 hours to get ready to go somewhere! Granted had it only been me it would have taken only 1/2 hour to 45mins, but still, that's a crazy long time when it takes about ten seconds to scrape it back into a pony tail. So we got to Matt's closer to the time I'd been invited and spent a couple of nice hours with the family. We ate and talked and laughed and played Mario Cart on the Wii and then came home to; crash for a nap= Ryan and Emily, watch a Mary Kate and Ashley movie= Caitlin, and facebook/blog= me. I should be cleaning my house right now because I invited a couple of Mormon boys to come over tomorrow for dinner. I'm such a sucker! They're these really sweet boys probably about 18-19 years old who live in our building and they're always so polite and they're ALWAYS asking if we'd like to hear about what they believe in. Most of the time I put them off with excuses that we're too busy and Caitlin goes to bed too early, but the other day they met Emily and one of them started talking about how he missed his black lab back home and before I knew what I was saying I invited them to come over for dinner. They jumped on the opportunity to share their beliefs with me (they are on a mission after all) and we set up a time for Monday at 6.30pm. My floors are vaccuumed right now, but my bathrooms need a good scrubbing and I'm pretty sure there are crumbs on my counters, but its Mother's day and I've already cleaned up from the brunch at Matt's house while the dads and kids played video games, so I'm not really feeling the whole cleaning thing. All in all it's been nice day, great weather, nice company, and it was even fun to get "all dolled up". Hope this day brought good fun and peace to your families as well. And Amy- I hope your move into your new home was smooth!