Tiffany’s First Mother’s Day

Today is tiffany’s first mother’s day.  You might wonder how that is possible given that Callum is over a year old.  Mother’s day is celebrated at different times in different countries.  In england the ‘mothering sunday’ celebration is a quasi-christian holiday occurring on the fourth sunday of lent, three weeks before easter.  Mother’s day in the US is a more modern secular holiday, celebrated on the second sunday in May.  Last year Callum was born in England four weeks after mothering sunday and we moved to San Francisco on May 15th, six days after American mother’s day.

You might argue that since we are American should have celebrated American mothers day even though we were in the UK.  The fact is that without television commercials, or mother’s day flower roadside stands nobody would know mother’s day is approaching.  In the absence of typical cultural cues how were we to know?  Plus you have to factor in the fact that we were busy taking care of a 5 week old infant AND preparing to move all belongings to another continent.  We didn’t have time to notice that 3000 miles away it was mother’s day. 

So here are some pictures from Tiffany’s first mother’s day with her 13 month old baby:

Her mothers day present.

Callum helped to “prepare” the present.

Callum has recently learned to give kisses.  It’s really sweet except when he has a runny nose and drooly chin, then it’s kinda gross.

Breakfast phase one, yogurt strawberries and granola.

A present to tiffany from Grandma.