I know, right? Where’s all the sap and sentimentality, the reflections on what it is to be a mother, the photos from years past?
Yes. Well. Not so much of that this year. I’m still glad to be a mother, I’m still amazed (as I am at every annual event) that another year has passed and look how much the kids have grown and changed and OMG MOTHERHOOD — what a crazy trip!
And then there’s my mom and my mother-in-law and all the other wonderful moms I know — shouldn’t I have posted something singing their praises and wishing them a happy Mother’s Day?
Yeah. I should have. But I didn’t.
Because I got an iPhone.
(I typed it all normal there, but in my head it’s more like this: I GOT AN iPHONE ZOMG AAAIIIEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
And it was a gift from my mom, who is the Best Mom in the Universe, so a grateful and loving Mother’s Day post would have been even more appropriate. And yet. Didn’t post anything. Because I was too busy playing with my new iPhone and learning how to use it.*
*Talk about your First World problems. I was too busy playing with my iPhone to update my blog. If I didn’t love myself so much for having an iPhone, I might think I was kind of obnoxious.
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So we had coffee and pastries with Matt’s parents, then brunch with my mom, then came home (very full) for naps. Before I could get the kids to settle down, I had to play them several YouTube videos of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. (It’s not just me who’s obsessed with this gadget, let me tell you.) We had a lovely day, and Mom — thank you. Thank you for being such a wonderful mother, and thank you for the wonderful new toy phone essential piece of business equipment (where business = facebook).
We even hit up the East Lake Street Cinco de Mayo festival for some elote after naptime.
Because if there’s one thing this family loves almost as much as an iPhone, it’s street-fair corn.
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