2011 Holiday Letter

Thursday, May 26, 2011

A Bit Belated: Mother's Day

We celebrated Mother's Day the way we celebrate most holidays: fairly low-key, relaxed, and filled with good foods. I woke up to Arlo's sweet gummy smiles and chubby baby cuddles. I made coffee and savory cottage cheese pancakes with macerated strawberries. We piddled with our slowly  hardening seedlings. Nick made lunch (grilled sandwiches with homemade pimento cheese--one of my fave former pregnancy cravings--served with his homemade Mex-Italian salsa),  and he baked  a deeelish banana and gooey marshmallow cake for dessert. We took a long walk along the river with the dog while Arlo napped away in the Moby wrap.
As I snuggled Arlo to sleep that night, I nestled my nose into his warm cheek and I quietly thanked him for making me his mother. I'm so very new to this motherhood gig, and I have so much still to learn. I have a feeling that Arlo is going to be an amazing teacher.

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