Happy Mother's Day!

Hello, and Happy Mother's Day to all of you "mums" out there! Actually, the British celebrated "Mothering Day" about a month or so ago. We decided to wait for the American calendar, and I'm so glad we did.

I had the most amazing Mother's Day! First of all, the weather around here has been gorgeous for the past week. We've been spending as much time as we can outside, and have even been wearing short-sleeves!!! Yesterday's weather was perhaps the nicest day of all that we've had in England so far (a high of 22 degrees Celsius!).

My day started out with the kids climbing into bed to cuddle (which happens every morning). But the real treat was that they actually slept! The four of us "slept in" until 7:45! Just glorious. I was then able to relax and have a leisurely shower as I awaited a nice pancake breakfast. I got to read my wonderful Mother's Day cards, and received a box of truffles from my hubby (he knows me so well). Tim's card for me was so cute! It had a picture of the two of us playing Connect Four. The best part was that he told me, "...and I let you win!" In his picture, you could see that I indeed had 4 checkers in a row. What a kid!

After a nice morning at church, we came home for lunch (leftover bbq chicken pizza, yum!), and even got a nice nap in.

Then in the afternoon, we decided to go to a local village called Knaresborough. It's less than a 15 minute drive away, and I had heard that it was fun to walk along the river there. Well, it was just beautiful. When we arrived, we were first greeted by Knaresborough Castle (or what was left of it).
As we continued walking, we looked out over an amazing view of the village alongside the River Nidd. The view was breathtaking!
We decided to head down to the river and rent a boat. Ethan was kind enough to row us around for about 45 minutes or so, while I steered (we only crashed a few times!).
We topped off our time there with an ice-cream, and then headed into Harrogate for a nice meal. It really was an incredible Mother's Day.