Spring cleaning & celebrating Mother’s Day

Spring cleaning & celebrating Mother’s Day

Spring must definitely be in the air because my urge to ‘spring clean’ has been real. I’ve been pulling out sofas, cleaning all the leather furniture in the house, and adding final touches to rooms that so badly needed it. However, I can’t help but feel as though once one room is finished, another one needs my attention.Β It’s a vicious circle and I’d be lying if I wasn’t a little dizzy. Does anyone else’s house get like that? One room is done and another one erupts!

Joys of Parenthood, eh!

My Mothers day kicked off with a gorgeous delivery from Tesco NI and it made me feel so special. I was genuinely taken back because there were flowers, a balloon and a whole bunch of delicious local treats too which were perfect for a Mother’s day afternoon tea party! Thank you, Tesco NI!Β 

#TescoNILovesMums
#TescoNILovesMums
#TescoNILovesMums

The blue skies & sunny afternoons that have been greeting us have been so incredibly welcome. Long may it continue!Β The brighter mornings and afternoons are certainly making our days happier. Over Mother’s day weekend, in particular, the weather was amazing! We honestly could not believe our luck and if it doesn’t sound too tragic, we hadn’t felt the sun so strong on our faces in months!

Now, my poor husband being so busy with his job & his university degree, he sort of ‘forgot’ to book anywhere for us to have lunch. He thought you could just ‘walk-in’ anywhere on Mother’s day. He’ll know for next year,Β {maybe!}. But me being as laid back as I am I would have been happy with fish & chips on the beach. However, sadly, no chippiesΒ are open on Sundays so we settled for a lunch in Wetherspoons instead.

After lunch, we explored on the beach {the kids getting so excited about seeing some baby hermit crabs} before letting the children loose in the Pirate playpark before finishing the day off with an ice-cream. What a better way to finish off a glorious day! It was a lovely day and I felt so very loved and extremely spoiled. I’m a lucky Mama.

Here are a few photos of our day.












I shared a post on my blog a few days ago about handling Mother’s day without your Mother and if you read it, you’ll know we made a promise. We made a promise to celebrate it more than we ever have before. Because even though it sucks not having your Mum around on Mother’s day, in reality, life still goes on. So we remembered our Mums in our own ways, we lit our ‘Mum candle’ and we went out and celebrated the day until our feet hurt & our bellies were full.

We really did have a wonderful day {aside from the end-of-the-day 4yr old tantrums & the 8yr old midday grumps} but you know….parenthood!

I hope your Mother’s day wasΒ wonderful too!



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