Mother's Day Weekend Recap

As I mentioned in previous posts, my Mother's Day celebration was interrupted by some unexpected and unwanted Covid news, but luckily my Mother's Day festivities started a few days early.

On Friday, I met up with my mom and sister along with Briana for a Mother's Day lunch and exchange of gifts. I am so grateful now that we did this early. Doug actually got home from his trip while we were still all visiting each other and they were not exposed to the virus from me.

We had a great lunch and did a lot of catching up...

The next day, Doug, Bri and I went to a movie theater to see the new Dr. Strange movie. It was the first time I had been in a movie theater (besides my home theater) since the beginning of the pandemic (Doug and Bri had gone to see Spiderman 3). Luckily, we were in a theater with stretch out seats and we had no one sitting directly next to us. Food has to be ordered in advance now and they just drop it off at your seat when you arrive, so we had very little contact with anyone. I think about Doug and I both being exposed to Covid at the time and had no idea. 

I was a bit nervous that because it was a "multiverse" movie that I may not be able to keep up with the story line, but it was really easy to follow...

It was a really enjoyable movie.

Mother's Day rolled around and Doug and Briana surprised me with breakfast in bed - eggs benedict. One of my favorite egg dishes...

They really did an amazing job with it.

And then they gave me some very sweet gifts. Briana designed a cup for me with the both of us on it as her "Briana-style characters" that she likes to draw (we don't have a name for them yet, so that is what I am calling them!)...

She is in red and I am in blue.

My request for the afternoon was watching "The Great Outdoors" in our home theater. I love this silly 80's movie and I wanted to show it to Bri.

We had leftover popcorn from the movie the day before, so I ate some while watching the movie...

I love this movie...

After the movie, I did go out and enjoy sitting on my porch for a while with Mei...

I was getting excited for my Italian dinner that I had requested, but then Doug reveal his surprising "news".

After being banished to the basement, I asked Bri if she would still take some pictures with me even though we had canceled our dinner reservation.

I think they turned out really nice (and I am so grateful she didn't get sick from me after this)...

She is my best girl and I am so grateful to be her mom each and every day.

We ordered in some Japanese hibachi and made the most out of of the rest of the day...

After Doug tested negative, he and Bri were able to start baking together again (they love baking). They made these delicious cream puffs...

I luckily started getting my taste back so I could enjoy them, but since they had to make them late, I am calling them my "belated Mother's Day" cream puffs. Heh.

So overall, my Mother's Day weekend was really nice - with an unfortunate kink in the end. I'm going to try to focus on the good parts of it and hope that next year we will all remain Covid free!