Mother's Day

Yesterday was my first Mother's Day. Last year, I was pregnant; but this year, there was a squirming, squealing baby greeting me in the morning, and I realized with a shock that's a bit absurd considering I'm with this baby all day, every day, that I'm her mother. Mother's Day belongs to me now.

Andrew and Lucia gave me a gift--a kit to create a paving stone with my and Lucia's handprint in the cement, which we made in the afternoon--and then went to get donuts, which we ate in bed. We spent the rest of the day relaxing around the house as I tried to wrap my mind around the fact that Lucia is not just a baby, but my baby.