My First Mother's Day

I had a wonderful weekend and I'm happy to fill in my loyal readers on all the details!

This weekend was my FIRST Mother's Day.

It was incredibly special as my Mom made the trip to Chicago, as did my sister, flying down from Minneapolis. I took two MUCH needed days off of work and spent that time hanging out with my two favorite women in the whole wide world.

The highlights of the weekend included:

1) Many trips with Grandma to Dunkin Doughnuts for coffee, walks in the neighborhood, giving Mom the tour of the brand new HPP!

2) An AMAZING girls evening out for dinner, (Nacional 27), the food was amazing, and the drinks were even MORE amazing. We shared a flight of mojitos, and they were so delicious we had a hard time not begging for MO' MO' MO' mojitos. Seriously delicious. My meal was a tender pork simmered with plaintains, black beans and coconut rice in a buttery orange sauce, with a cuban spice twist. So good!

3) Following dinner we headed to the hit Broadway Musical, Wicked! Which is SO good! Mom and I had seen it, but it was Greta's first time.....so that was fun. I just love that show. We had killer seats. Front row, first balcony. It was amazing.

4) Just hanging around! I think sometimes when you live in the city there is pressure to go do! and go see! which is nice, but the weather was kind of nasty, (typhoon pastry run?!) so we just chilled lots, played and snuggled Finn and watched movies.

5) Delicious dinner on Mother's Day at Moe and Jim's. It was fun to see Nick's family and his Mom on the special day to celebrate with them as well. Here is a fun fact! People in Illinois have NO idea what rhubarb is! Crazy huh? Mom whipped up one of her amazing rhubarb desserts and Nick's family had never had rhubarb before. So odd!

6) Getting a beautiful card from Nick and Finn and learning that Nick has bought me a VERY nice and amazing keepsake, a gold bracelet with Finnegan's name on it, for my first Mother's Day. I will include a picture when I actually get it. It has links so I can add future Keaty babies names to it. I can't wait!!

As Finn gets ready to turn 1 this coming Saturday, I can hardly believe that I've been a MOM for almost an ENTIRE YEAR! It's hard to remember NOT being a mom. It is everything I thought it would be and so so so much more.

I see super amazing pregnant ladies around now, ready to pop, and I think back to this time last year. How nervous I was. How excited. How LARGE I was. I know what is in store for them! The labor, the first few days, nights, weeks. The first smile, laugh, the first clap, tooth, etc. I just want to grab them and say, "Aren't you SO excited! Oh my god being a mom is SO AMAZING, you're going to love it!!!" Obviously I can't do that because I would be arrested.

So much has changed in a year, and the one thing that continues to change is how much deeper my love gets for Finnegan, and my excitement for what the future holds. It's truly indescribable.

Here are some pictures from the weekend!

Happy Belated Mother's Day to all the Moms out there!
MOMS RULE :-)

More gifts from Auntie Greta for Finny's birthday, bath toys and snuggly dog!
M IS FOR MOJITO!

WICKED!

Now HERE is a great group shot!