Happy Friday! + Links 5/5/17 (Mother's Day Edition!)
Happy Friday and Cinco de Mayo to you! I hope you have black beans boiling on the stove and ripe avocados on the counters. Mexican food is a THING at our Farmhouse so you can bet that we'll be mashing our beans and salting our pico tonight! Or if the day runs long, we'll be stopping by our favorite taco truck. Mother's Day weekend is only a week away...are you ready?! This year Garrett and I invited our mothers over for brunch and a day of gardening at the Farmhouse. I'm hoping to spend all day with my little loves and the grandmas and also get a vegetable garden planted. Win/win ;)
Being that I'm pregnant this Mother's Day (with my third child...how did that happen?!!!), I've been feeling nostalgic about it. I remember my first Mother's Day present. I was 37 weeks pregnant with Wilder, and walked into a hospital in Portland on Mother's Day (turning down a wheelchair from the attendant who thought I was there to give birth myself) to find the room where my sister was laboring with her second child. After a long and slow afternoon, a perfect little baby was born, and they named her Gweneth Catherine...after me. No Mother's Day gift can compare to that (except for my sister who got to take that sweet baby bundle home), but I've done my best curating a gift guide for all you home lovers out there. My only criteria was finding gifts that I'd love to bring home myself. Hopefully every dada or kiddo can find something their mama/grandma/aunties/friends would love in here. I asked Garrett and the boys for #4 plus a day of gardening ;)
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And since it's Friday, here are a few more links to fill your morning. Grab a cup of coffee and dig in!
Baking celebratory cakes is a big hobby of mine so I'm eagerly planning our Mother's Day cake. My mom's favorite cake is a hazelnut torte and my mother-in-law's is an angel food cake and I'm not really sure there's any way to combine those, so I'm thinking about this.
A few mama's share how they work from home with kiddos. I'm always curious how other moms and dads find that elusive balance, especially when they're home with kids and have outside work commitments. But I'm learning that balance isn't really a thing when parenthood is involved.
I just found this Insta account last week and this post brought me to tears - happy mama tears - and made me so grateful for the joy of motherhood in my own life.
Have you guys been following the One Room Challenge this Spring? Check it out if you haven't yet! I can't wait to see how everyone's room turns out in 2 short weeks!
Happy Friday everyone!
xoxo
-Cathy