Mother's Day no.1

I'm a very lucky Mum this year. 3 of the children won't be at our house next weekend because they have commitments elsewhere, so they decided between them that it'd be a great idea to give me Mother's Day a week early. Fortunately for me, they didn't discuss this with my other half or the other children, and they weren't ready yet - so I'll get 2 Mother's Days! Yeeay!

For Mother's Day no.1 I got 2 boxes of Thorntons chocs and 2 gorgeous cards. I really wouldn't expect any more than that. Last year I did feel incredibly lucky, this year is promising to be even better....

It's really hard for me to switch off, there's always so much to do, so I decided the best way to do nothing was to ban myself from the kitchen....this worked really well until 3pm when I had to point out to my other half that actually no-one had been given any lunch, and the little boys were starving. My other half is blessed with a real inability to feel hunger! Fortunately once that had been pointed out, the teenagers all went off into the kitchen and mostly cooked some veggie burgers and chips. Things taste so much better when you didn't have to cook them yourself! 

Next weekend not only am I banning myself from the kitchen, I'm turning it up a notch. I got a surprise parcel today from the folks at Virtual Bathrooms, who very kindly sent me a selection of pampering products including a Bee Beautiful Petal Passion Bath Bomb - so I intend to lie in the bath for an hour amongst the rose petals and feel like a movie star. I'm going to look forward to that all week, it's been months (or years) since I had a bath. I feel spoilt already....