Mother’s Day began with breakfast in bed. Last night, the girls told me to stay in bed as I am always up spoiling their surprise! After the dog play date, Jim and girls made me pancakes delivered to my bed around 9:15. The time was perfect as I was starting to get restless, but I knew the dogs would run a full hour today.

Eleri had a card and coupons – for hugs, kisses, clean her room, etc.

Emerysn made me an imovie. She did a fantastic job pulling photos for the imovie. She did comment it was hard finding pictures with me in them…I am the one always taking the photos.

For lunch, we walk to the World Financial Center (WFC). I love that the building is two blocks from the side gate.

We enjoyed a lovely lunch at Din Tai Fung – our favorite dumpling place.

As we were leaving the WFC, we walked by a book store. Emersyn needs a couple paper back books to take on her dive trip. The book stores are small and expensive in Shanghai. She found two books for her trip. Now, the hard part is that she can’t read the books until the trip. We told Emersyn she can’t even touch the books or she will start reading them. Eleri found a book -“365 Science Experiments”. We came home for a quite afternoon of a movie and some science experiments.

It was a nice, casual day spent with my family. It was perfect!