What I did for mothers day! 💗 A day in the life ✨️

Greetings loved ones! 🖖🤣 Welcome to my blog for a rather chill post when what I did was anything but (I was on my feet for the majority of the day! 😂). Mothers day was this Sunday just gone by here in Ireland, the 30th of March (I know it’s different in some other places 🤔). Moments of the day just felt so right and meaningful, like we were where we were meant to be so I thought I would share a little bit of what happened as I like documenting some of my nice moments on here to look back on ✨️. The amount of posts I rediscovered when I upgraded my blog was truly heartwarming so maybe this one will be like that one day 💫.

I understand if some of you would prefer to skip this post if it’s a subject you wish to avoid 💗 I wish you well and hope you have a lovely day/night if this is where you want to leave me, just be sure to come back next time! 🤣 This post isn’t meant to show off, it’s to share the joy so I hope it encompasses that.

Over the years I have shared how special my mum is to me. I shed a light on the magical night when she recieved her kidney transplant at the end of this post here and I felt like mentioning that as it feels like every day is a gift with her and it’s a blessing. I mean it’s a gift regardless tbh because she means the world to me but I like looking back at that story from a time that feels like eons ago. I love my mum to the moon and then back again for good measure and I hate how precise that sounds because the feeling is immeasurable (she says she loves me more but clearly that is not possible 😉). I just love her so much, she gets me and makes me feel like I can achieve my wildest dreams and she gives the best hugs! My earliest memory is of giving my mum a hug too 🤣. She explained the other day how our hugs are like when you need food or water and I think thats the perfect way to describe it! With some people you’re just deep in your feels when you hug them! 🤗 Sending a virtual hug to you guys in 3, 2, 1….

Did you feel it?? 😊 I like to give hugs and squeezes because then you really feel the hug, y’know? ANYway 🙄🤣. Apologies for the love fest tangent I went off on there but I felt like I should lead with that, letting you guys know a bit of backstory before delving into the day that was had!

Okay so let’s begin with the morning of mother’s day! I woke up around 7:30am which is not and I repeat NOT my usual wake up time but I find that if I really tell myself to wake up early over and over again before I go to sleep then I have a high chance of it coming true and it did! It had to in my eyes because I had a lil surprise for my mum that I wanted to send to her early via WhatsApp and she wakes up early. I didn’t know if I wanted to go down to see her reaction whilst I sent it or to wait a bit so I waited like five seconds after sending it and skyrocketed down the stairs. Perhaps I should tell you what it was? 🤔…nah!!!

Just joking! I can’t share a picture of it but I created a digital newspaper article on Canva and made it like a mothers day newspaper with funny jokes about our pets and family one-liners (my dog Nina has a thing for my mums leg so I had to add that in there…..sorry Nina and mum I guess 🙈🤣). I inserted photos and it looked like a real cover of a newspaper (if randy dogs ever made the news 😂). So yeah, I sent it to her and it gave her a good laugh and later on in the day she told me it was a nice surprise to receive so that made my day as I had tried to make it good! Ti’s the little things 🤣.

Then I gave her some gifts (one of those tell me your story books where you find out more about your parents life’s!!) and it was time for the next segment of her day, which was curated by my sister! Mum has Italian ancestry and loves to let us know it 🤣 so my sister came up with the idea to do an Italian Capri theme in the sitting room and decorate the table. She had gone all out with trying to find lemon themed goods when out and about and lots of Italian snacks from Tkmaxx.

It went down a hit with mum and my sister had strung up some family photos too so looking around bought a tear to her eye! I on the other hand was eyeing up those snacks 🤣 but I had something I needed to do whilst mum was enjoying her Italian getaway, my main gift to her was cooking dinner, dessert and making mocktails so I had to get in the damn kitchen and get going! 😅 (I just want to add in here that mum would have been happy without these things but we just wanted to make the day special because she means so much to us. We try to show it everyday but wanted to do something to show our love that bit more on mothers day so here we were!).

While mum watched the new Bridgit Jones movie with my sister I got started on the feast! I’d utilised Canva yet again to print out a menu (thank God I had ink 🙌). Let me show it to you:

So, I made sweet potato tikka masala first, it’s a recipe I got from a library book I’d say a little over a year ago and I hadn’t made it in so long because it has a long method where you make the sauce first but mum had been asking me to make it for a while so I caved in 🤣. This is how that turned out:

Then, just as that was being left to simmer, I started making the key lime pretzel pie (I forgot to put “pretzel” on the menu). This is a Donal Skehan recipe from another library book and it hits the spot every time! I don’t do the part in the recipe where you make the candied lime zest tho as you don’t really need to, it tastes awesome without too! (Look at me tooting my own horn 🙈🤣). This is how that turned out after I added some finishing touches:

At this point as you can imagine, I was very tired but I was also on a roll! It felt good with each milestone I hit like: Oh the curry’s done! Or yay the pies in the oven! I’m so happy that nothing went wrong aside from almost chopping my finger off when I peeled the potatoes but we won’t go there 😅. When I used to make the sweet potato tikka masala I’d ask mum to peel the potatoes for me but this time around she couldn’t know what I was making so I had to suck it up, and I did (or at least I tried to 🤣).

It was whilst I was piecing this together that my sister came out into the kitchen and told me that she was going to go look at a car with my dad as she was thinking of buying one  (sidenote: we went and collected it the next day! But that’s a story for another time! Perhaps a coffee chat?). With them both out it was just mum and me at home. I finished the banner shortly after, made the mocktails (you can find the recipe for Tropical Teaser mocktails here!) and before I invited her into the kitchen there was a gift I wanted to give her first. A poem I wrote and it was well recieved! ✨️ We then went out to the kitchen where I handed over the menu with a flourish and gave the appetizer (the kiss! 🤣). Mocktails were first on the menu so that was what we had:

Then I showed her the sweet potato tikka masala and the key lime pie and she was so happy! Next up we sat together whilst we drank and watched one our fav youtubers together before I gave more gifts (they weren’t extravagant gifts, they were more on the meaningful side), one of which was a “reasons why I love you mom” prompt book that I’d filled in. Mum absolutely loved it, especially where the prompt had been “I’m sorry mum for…..my short texts” because I’m so bad for messaging her short responses 🙈🤣.

The day went to plan and after my dad and sis got back and we’d had dinner (I did NOT want to eat the sweet potato tikka masala after staring at it all day so I had something else 🙃😂) and after that we’d eaten the key lime pie, we reminisced over how nice it had been. To be honest, lately I’ve felt like I’ve been living after so long just existing with chronic pain and this was one of those days where I was able to delve in and feel like i was living my life. Pain was still there at times, but I for once used my time wisely. At first I’ll admit we questioned whether or not I should do it as I hadn’t felt 100% but I didn’t want to let mum down, not that she would have minded, heck, she didn’t even know what was planned for the day so it wouldn’t have mattered in the grand scheme of things but it really mattered to me because she matters so I’m glad I was able to play a part in making her day. She kept saying thank you and then texting me those same words whilst I was in bed 🥰🤣. It felt like one of those days that was full of magic and I didn’t want it to end but all good things must. I hope for more days that feel like how this one felt, there’s nothing quite like treating a loved one.

So yeah! That was my mother’s day (that makes it sound like I’m the mother 🤣…well I am to my baby Nina 😌🐕). If you’ve made it this far in the post then you’re a real one!! Comment 🖖 so that I know you got here 😆.

How was your mother’s day? 🌸 (If you celebrated it). Should I do more day in the life type posts? Let me know in the comments below! I’ve gotta go now but I really hope you enjoyed this post and could sense how much I myself enjoyed writing it! 😄 I’ll see you around (next blog post will be Saturday!) but I hope you have a wonderful day/night, stay safe, take care and buh-bye! ✨️💗