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Showing posts with label Mother's Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mother's Day. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Mother's Day Brunch

As I mentioned earlier, I hosted a Mother's Day Brunch on Saturday for some of the special women in my life; my daughter, my momma, my mother-in-law, and my mother- in-law's mother.  I kept things pretty simple with both store bought and homemade foods. My main focus was to use fancy tea cups and let my daughter pour the tea (b/c she really enjoys that part). Even though traditional tea parties involve hot tea, we chose to serve it cold. Who doesn't love cold sweet tea?!
My daughter helped with the place cards; writing the names on each tag.


And since we were using fancy tea cups, I decided to use the rest of our china as well.





We served fresh fruit, chocolate squares, mini french toast loaves, and sausage pinwheels.


The sausage pinwheels were super easy and super delicious! I was honestly surprised at how good they tasted. (The picture just doesn't do them justice.)





My daughter spent most of her time refilling the tea. AND reminding us to have "pinkie's up". Apparently the tea tastes better when you drink it with your pinkie up! :)


It was such a fun and special morning.

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Mother's Day Gift Guide

Mother's Day is just around the corner! I always love Mother's Day and celebrating with my sweet little babes who give me the reason to celebrate. I also love celebrating with my momma and MIL. This year I'm planning to host a light brunch at my house on Saturday with our moms, then save Sunday just for my little family. So while I was working on my brunch menu, I started thinking of some fun ideas for gifts.



Mother's Day Gift Guide


Candle / Stud Earrings on sale for $26!! (Cheaper alternative $8) / Drop Earrings / Gold Bar Necklace (personalized with names on it - mine came from etsy) / Copper Mug / Coffee Mug / Longchamp Tote (available in 12 colors) / Fresh Flowers / Spa Day

What are some of the best gifts you've received and/or given?
 
My mom's birthday is always VERY close to Mother's Day, so I typically combine her gifts. She's always preferred hanging plants and/or mani/pedi gift cards. (Or the gift of TIME.)

My favorite gift to receive is anything handmade. And I especially love when my kids use their hand/foot prints to make something (not a shock, I know). Every year I ask my hubs to take the kids to the local pottery shop and have them paint me something. I haven't been so lucky yet (although my son is still pretty young), but maybe this will be the year! Ha! And maybe it's b/c my kids are still young, but for most of my past "Mother's Day's", my hubs has just given me a gift from himself (jewelry, flowers, etc) and the kids have made me cards. I also LOVE fresh flowers (but that's not a shock either). My favorite gift so far would probably have to be my skinny gold bar necklace with my kids' names stamped on it. I love it so much and wear it almost every day! 

But all gifts aside, I truly just love spending time with my kiddos for Mother's Day. They are the greatest gift of all!
 
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