First Mother's Day

My mom came to visit on Friday night and stayed until Sat oneish. I got flowers from my father in law on Saturday, when we opened the door to go out to breakfast, they were sitting on the doorstep (he lives in L.A. and had them delivered). I was so surprised that he sent them to me.

Yesterday (Mother's Day), when I walked into the living room I saw a card sitting on the table. I don't know why, but I asked J, "Is that for your mom?" He was like, no, it's for you.

It was hands down the sweetest thing I think he's ever done - he went and bought fingerpaints, wrote "Happy Mother's Day Mom" on the front of the card, and had Harper put her handprint on it with the fingerpaints. Inside it says, "We love you. From Harper and Jamal." It has another handprint inside of it. The cover is funny because her first print she had way too much paint on her hand so there are two prints. I'll try to take a picture of it and post it.
I asked him when they made it and he said at 7am when I woke him up to change her diaper he did it then. I guess I handed her to him and immediately fell back to sleep so he wasn't worried about me catching them.
She didn't have a speck of paint on her to give it away, either. He said it was a little hard getting all of the paint out of her cuticles. Heh.
It was not only the thought that was so sweet, but the planning. Big props to J!

They also got me a bath gift set, which we might take back because even though it's lavender, it's sort of smelly and neither of us like really perfumy smells.

Later yesterday, we went to his mom's for lunch. We then took a long walk in the 70 degree weather. We're having a terrific spring.

J is such a good father and I don't know how people do it without help. Of course, I'm also working full time so I really need the help. This morning after I fed and changed H it was 5:30 and she was wide awake. I woke him up and asked him to take her into the other room so I could keep sleeping. The man who normally would wake up for nothing and preferably not before 10am, got right up and took her into the living room. I got to sleep for at least two more hours before he brought her in to eat again. This morning, I fed her on her boppy with the laptop propped on my knees so I could do work and he could eat breakfast and take a shower before I went into the office for 2 hours.

Well, now I'm at work and should try and do some work.