I will be
away visiting my mom for a month in Taiwan and my two Etsy shops will be closed until 5/14.
Not exact matches
Besides the simultaneous happiness and heartache that comes with finally getting to see your people after a few years
away, here are some other things I'm really looking forward to: staring at the blossoming chestnut trees outside of my
mom's kitchen window,
visiting the food market across the street from there every day, fresh sorrel soup,
mom's melt - in - your - mouth zucchini fritters, and a good morel mushroom season, if I'm lucky.
Once a Michigan pledge, Solomon and his
mom were «blown
away» during their recent
visit to Ann Arbor.
The Carters
visited Harvard last month and
mom and dad were blown
away by what they saw.
Moms are just a phone call or Skype
visit away from offering reassuring, motherly love and advice, but they can not rid your sink of the pile of dirty dishes or the ever - growing mountain of laundry.
Still, he
visited her for a long weekend every month (I tease him that if he'd only got a patent for the meshed - screened carry - on pooch bag he designed and built to bring Teddy with him, we'd be multimillionaires) until his
mom passed
away, he retired and he joined her (kicking and screaming all the way).
For very young children who aren't used to being
away from
Mom or Dad, and even for older kids making their first
visit to your home, consider making the playdate a family affair.
I wear my daughter on our walks to the mailbox (a block
away), at bbqs at my
moms house,
visits to the mall, and anywhere where we will be walking a ton... I have 3 kids 4 yrs and under so i rely on my carrier..
11 am - Baby down for nap, start on folding laundry 1120 am - Putting
away laundry 1130 am - Preparing a grilled cheese sandwich and vegetable bean soup 12Noon -
Mom eating lunch, Baby beginning to stir 1215 pm - Start dishes and wipe all surfaces, while
Mom cuddles Baby 1230 pm -
Mom feeds Baby, I sit with her and we talk about her family's excitement, how to manage
visits 1 pm -
Mom upstairs to nap, I burp, change and soothe Baby back to sleep 120 pm - Finish folding laundry and put
away dry dishes 2 pm - Swiffer the kitchen and dining room 230 pm - Straighten and organize baskets to use for mobile changing station and nursing items 245 pm -
Mom awake from nap, Baby wakes at same time, to feed.
mom doesn't know I have plans to «use» her while she's
visiting and I don't want to scare her
away!
While my
mom came to
visit, she had snuck it
away, fixed it, and returned it to me as a gift.