Mother's Day

This year my Mother's Day had it all.  The night before, I went to see Aida with my mom at a local high school, just the two of us.  On Mother's Day itself Solomon made me breakfast in bed.  We did that funny little dance where he tried not to wake me up, and I tried not to come downstairs so that he could give me breakfast in bed.  Nova and Charlotte made drawings and a Happy Mother's Day banner.  After a morning shopping for plants on my own, we all piled in the car and drove east to Willow River State Park.

The falls were as beautiful as I remembered, but with a lot more water rushing over than the last time I'd seen them.  Swallows dipped and wheeled in the rounded hollow of the cliff behind the falls.  Rock climbers inched up neon cords a few feet away.  We sat and soaked up the sun and enjoyed our trail mix as long as we could before it was time to head back.

This is from the banner Nova and Charlotte made me.

We all tagged along to Charlotte's dance class, getting there in the nick of time (the next weekend was the recital, so she sort of needed to be there).  Afterward we went to a Los Arcos, an authentic mexican restaurant in our neighborhood, for an early dinner.