My 1st Mothering Sunday!

A quick post before bed! I am struggling a bit with Tallulah & bed times so going to quickly post before getting some much needed sleep before she wakes me up...that subject is for another day though.....!

I had a thoroughly splendid 'Happy 1st Mothers Day' and enjoyed it very much! The night before I became a baking maniac and was baking cupcakes until about 11.30pm, I have these mad moments where I get a bit carried away. Lovely Max was taking care of Tallulah and he didn't even gasp in horror at the utter carnage in the kitchen haha, there is literally pink icing, butter and icing sugar on most of the things on display in the kitchen....

I made rose cupcakes (with rosewater) and chocolate orange cupcakes with orange cream icing!

Usually a lot of things I make have some sort of disaster during the making which involves a bit of upset and a bit of fixing. This time I burnt the dark chocolate and it went all weird and gloopy, but i carried on regardless and the end result tasted pretty darn good.

On Mothers Day Max's parents came round for coffee and cakes in the morning. Barbara makes the most heavenly carrot cake I have ever tasted, to prove this i will tell you that I ate a quarter of it without hesitation for breakfast this morning. We had a lovely time together and Tallulah was in a happy mood which was a bonus! My Dad also popped in to screw together a rabbit run for our bunnies in the garden! This was my mothers day present from him :-)

We had to dash off to to my Aunties for Mother's Day lunch at 1pm which is about 50 mins away in the car, my grandparents, cousinss, brothers etc were all there. We Had a lovely shepherds pie followed by about a thousand puddings, there was a small upset where my Aunties' chunky black labrador ate 6 cupcakes off the cake stand in the larder that my cousin Cate had made....ohhhh Hector!

After this some of the family went off to walk the dog whose tummy was full of cakes, and we watched some larkrise to candleford with my grandma, cousin and brothers. Then Max drove us home where we got cosy!

Tallulah & Max gave me a beautiful silver locket and chain which I absolutely adore, and felt very romantic. There was a love note inside which he had written saying 'Me and Hooly (Tallulah) love you more than words can say'. I feel very lucky and overwhelmed with emotion to have recieved such a beautiful gift from such a beautiful man and daughter.

Mother's day has taken on another dimension of meaning to me and Max this year, as we are really starting to know first hand just what it means to be a parent, I love my Mum so much that it is almost too intense to feel sometimes, in her card i wrote ' you have given me two things, one is roots, the other wings..' which completely sums it all up. Max loves his Mum just as intensely too and we both love each others parents a lot, so it is all just a one big bundle of love really!

Mum's present did luckily arrive in time, and i left a little display on her kitchen table when she was out:-) hehe! She also gave me some gifts which were very unexpected and awesome, she knows me better than I do sometimes! A Primrose Hill bakery cookbook and LuLu perfume, which my Mum used to wear when I was little, it instills a homely comforting, nostalgic memory of that time in my being and the way my Mother smelled, and now I get to wear it too!