Mothers Day 2015

Mothers day is never an easy day for me. On one hand I am trying to make the day special for Tina and make sure Joshua, Brandon and Holly realise it is their Mummy's day, but then on the other hand I kind of feel saddened and somewhat lost that I can no longer be with my own Mum. Even though it has now been a couple of years I still keep thinking I need to get her a present and card and go around and see her. We all miss her so much.





Gone but never forgotten.





That aside we did try our best to give Tina a nice Mothers day and all 3 kids made her the most beautiful homemade mothers day cards. This was fortunate in Brandon's case given that the commercial card that he bought was incorrectly for Nan's and not Mum's!!!!

 

Joshua's homemade Mothers Day card for 2015.

Brandon's homemade Mothers Day card.

And just check out little Holly's beautiful card that she made at her Little Abs group.

 

I think Tina was sufficiently spoilt by the kiddies today. For gifts they got her some earrings, a new top, some chocolates, some flowers and an absolutely stunning birthstone gold necklace. The necklace features all three of there names and then a red garnet gemstone for Brandon, a pink tourmaline for Joshua and yellow topaz for Holly. Once the gifts were out of the way we got up nice an early so I could cook Tina a big fried breakfast and then the boys wanted to head over to Chelmsford for their 3rd Park Run.

 

Tina's stunning new birthstone necklace.

At the Park Run today Holly was keen to get out of the buggy and do a bit of running around herself. As the two boys went around the course she was looking out for them and even clapped them on as they went past. Joshua started very fast as usual and was probably sitting in the top 20 until he got a stitch towards the end of the first lap which then ruined his race. To be honest he was really ill Friday and Saturday with a cold so he did very well to even get up and complete the 2k course today. However it was his slowest time and the first time he has lost to his little brother. Josh is very competitive and upset that he ran so badly today, but I keep telling him that he did very well considering he was ill and had a stitch. A lot of kid's probably wouldn't have even bothered.

 

Brandon was also on a  flyer today and with his brother clearly suffering at the end of lap 1, he could smell blood and he pounced on it. Not only did he beat his brother for the first time but in doing so he also got a new PB with a time of 10 mins a 46 secs (the first time he has gone under 11 mins). He placed 41st overall and 22nd in his age group - so an amazing performance from the little man.

 

Holly doing a bit of Park Run warm-up.

And her little legs carry her to the finish line.

At the end of lap 1 Brandon smells blood and moves in for the overtake on his bigger brother.

Finally he gets around Josh and never looks back as he storms to a new PB.

A poorly Josh soldiers around the course but is clearly in some pain.

Brandon saves a bit in the tank for his big sprint finish.

 

After the Park Run it has become a bit of a tradition to stop off in "Dunkin Donuts" for a nice warming coffee and the most delicious donuts ever. Today they had some nice strawberry heart mothers day themed donuts which we treated Tina too. Me and B had a triple chocolate hazelnut, Joshua had an iced donut with hundreds and thousands on top and Holly picked at some chocolate donut balls.

 

Balloon fight in "Dunkin Donuts".

A Mothers Day picture of Tina with Josh, Brandon and Holly in DD.