Mother's day bubbles

While tomorrow is the official Mother's Day, due to the weather, we chose to celebrate a little tonight at the in-law's place tonight, as today was sunny and tomorrow will be rainy and cold. It might snow on Monday.

We aren't doing anything special tomorrow, other than making breakfast for my wife and perhaps getting some takeout, because there is not much else we can do and Mother's Day is not really much of a celebration day. I find it weird that it is considered a public holiday at all - what is the use of a public holiday on a Sunday anyway?

The fun part of the evening was blowing bubbles (not like Michael Jackson may have) in the yard. Oh, due to corona, we were outdoors for this event, as if that changes anything other than making us all quite cold - it was sunny, but not exactly warming through to the bone.

It was nice to get out of our house though and be somewhere else where there were people. The only times we have really got out together is when we have gone to hardware stores to look at materials and fittings, which we did today also.

On a side note, my wife is going to be sanding back and painting a garden bench tomorrow, so I am hoping to get some pictures of that event. :D so far, she hasn't exactly got her hands dirty with the renovation work yet - so perhaps this will get her into the swing of it.

It is interesting to see @smallsteps at this age as she seems to be going through a changeover period, growing fast and maturing daily. In the last week or so it has felt a little bit like leaps and bounds as she has been spending more time by herself playing games or drawing, even while we have been working. She still calls in on us, but the gaps are getting longer "between visits".

She has been planning to move out for the last year or so, but knows that when she turns 4 she is still too young, so will wait until she is five. It feels weird to hear her talk like that as I project it into the future and can imagine that it is going to be hard to let her leave. Though at times she says, it will be us who are leaving.

She has had some reactions the last couple days too as we have experimented further with some foods - it seems that fresh carrot is on the no go list - even though she has been eating cooked carrot for a few years now. I am glad that she isn't in pain with this one though and it is just a skin reaction that doesn't seem to trouble her too much.

I am surprised that she keeps on wanting to try new foods however, as often kids who react tend to shy away from trying new things as they associate it with the reaction. She has always had a healthy appetite and as I have said before, her diet could be classified a "baby cavegirl diet" as she doesn't eat that much that can't be picked or caught and even now has barely had added sugars.

Most of her progress I credit to her mother being a balanced blend of cautious and curious when it comes to what @smallsteps eats. It has been a very long journey to get to this point, but for the last 6 motnhs or so we haven't been recording every morsel she eats and the reactions that follow. We have a pile of food diaries for about 3 years worth of meals, as well as medications taken. Not really the family album memories most store.

But memories they are, and while we might want to forget parts of our lives at times, they all go into making us who we are now and direct us toward who we will be tomorrow. Even though society these days likes to worship mothers, I think that the type of mother matters - not just having the label. While @smallsteps might not be too lucky with me as a father, she is lucky to have the mother she has and in time, she will probably appreciate all of the effort that went into her upbringing as it will likely show in who she will grow to become.

Taraz
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