Glimpses of Mother's Day

Mother's Day has truly become one of my favorite celebrations.

It took becoming a mama myself to really understand how truly selfless and amazing my own mom is.

I'm under no illusions that I'm anywhere near as good of a mom that she is, but I can only hope and pray that some of her amazingness will rub off on me!

This year's Mother's Day was especially meaningful. My mom is bravely fighting uterine cancer like an absolute champ! I don't think I've heard her complain ONCE about any pain or discomfort, and her attitude throughout this whole thing is just admirable.

This year I wanted her to take it easy on Mother's Day, and to come over for a brunch that incorporated a few things she loves!

Her favorite color is purple, so I went out and bought a purple serving dish to serve a yummy cinnamon pecan french toast bake in:

Keeping with the purple - lavender lemonade. Served in (my favorite) mason jars, wrapped with lace, and a purple paper straw and a sprig of lavender from our own yard:

Cute, little sucre shop spoons made a thrown-together coconut milk yogurt parfait look festive:

An adorable crochet heart bunting, and a mama's day chalkboard kept with the theme:

{{No pictures during the brunch itself - I was busy, enjoying the company!}}

Later in the day, my little family took me to one of my favorite local restaurants, Sauced. I'm not one who needs a fancy restaurant to feel loved, and this place serves their drinks in mason jars. What's not to love!

Coco was busy playing photographer, and I snapped a pic of her snapping a pic ;)

She took this one (and I edited it) The girl who made me a mama!

We ended the night with a walk downtown. It was perfection.

Happy Mother's Day to all the mamas, aunties, sisters, cousins, grandmas, mamas to furbabies, and mamas at heart.

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