Another Bittersweet Mother's Day

Little Char is a few days shy of becoming an official infant (good-bye newborn) and I finally took her to visit her Grandma's grave in lieu of Mother's Day. If you didn't know already, her (Chinese) middle name is the same as her Grandma's: Chai-Ping.

So here we are again, my second Mother's day and also my second without my mother. Bittersweet feeling indeed. I hope Mom knows how much more I appreciate her and what she's done for her kids now that I have kids of my own.



But on to happier news... Mother's day weekend might be one of the best weekends in the year. Those (seemingly) endless days, sleeping on the floor, doing loads of laundry, cleaning up after everybody finally gets paid off as mothers around the world get appreciated. I never knew being a Mother meant serving (little) people 24/7 till July 2011. This weekend, I got a lot of goodies - the kids (including Daddy) got me a nice card filled with pictures of them, a huge bouquet of flowers, a picture locket, and my vice - coffee (thank you children for making your mother addicted to coffee). And we also went to eat at my favorite (chain) restaurant - Cheesecake Factory. *never go there on Mother's Day weekend!*





Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers out there! (It should be celebrated more than once a year, haha!)