Happy Mother’s Day to me, and my momma, and all the other awesome mothers (and soon-to-be mothers!) out there!!

Today I got to sleep in and woke to the smell of french toast on the griddle. Yum! I came downstairs to a hot cup of tea, delicious breakfast, and a pile of cards from the kids. All week they’ve been scurrying up the stairs after school, squireling away some sweet note or another that they brought home. Today I got to read them all. Pure sweetness.

Morning snuggles

Then we hung out for awhile, read the comics, played some games, and read some stories. Alan got lunch from Panera Bread and installed a hitch and a bike rack on my car so we can now transport bikes places. Yay!

After lunch, Eve and I headed to King Arthur Flour for a baking class in their fancy new Baking Education Center. Double yay! It was a “baking with kids” class so the subject matter wasn’t new, but we had fun anyway. We made sugar cookies then decorated them with sugar frosting. :) Sugarlicious!

Eve checking things out.

A peek at the future when Eve is taller than I am. :)

We made these cookies without a mixer!

Check out the walk-in oven! That could be dangerous. Right next to the oven (behind the rack) is a giant walk-in fridge.

Time to decorate!

Cookies galore! We were a little heavy handed with the food coloring, so we have very bright cookies!

After class we had to do some shopping! Eve thinks we should start grinding our own flour for bread. I’m not sure I’m ready to go there just yet! I forgot to use my 15% off coupon though, so we’ll be shopping again soon. :)

Someone else was pretty happy with the cookies too!

When we got home Alan was mowing the lawn and Lex was lost in a book. I made soup and bread for dinner and we had a very nice family dinner, with cookies for dessert of course! Happiness is.

I hope your day was lovely as well.