Time and Chocolate

Have you looked at the calendar lately?  If you're like me, you glance at the current month's page on your laptop's calendar because that's where you live much of the time, in the "right now."  Not that I don't look ahead and dream and plan, but when my days are filled with homeschool biology lessons on efferent and afferent lymph vessels, reminding teens to fold and put away their own clothes, and doctor's appointments that take for.ev.er to get to because they must be located in Timbuktu, the brain things in my head revolve around this week alone.

So imagine the dumbfounded expression on my face when I saw an ad for Mother's Day recently.  And the fact that it is in less than two weeks.  In case you're having a hard time imagining this look let me help.  My brow is furrowed, my mouth is open, and I'm uttering some sort of gibberish which clearly shows my inability to speak anything that resembles intelligible words.

Less than two weeks?! How can this be when I haven't even finished my kids Easter candy yet?  I'm used to there being at least a month between celebrating the resurrection of Jesus and the honoring of moms.  A whole month.  Just enough time to purge the massive amounts of candy that is being consumed from Easter baskets, the chocolate that is now coursing through my body and making me giddy {from lack of sleep, no doubt...cocoa-laced caffeine will do that}. 

But no matter how surprised I am at my lack of calendar reading, the fact remains that moms everywhere are going to get some props real soon.  Are you ready?  How do you celebrate Mother's Day?  I remember my dad taking my mom, her mom, and all four of us girls {or whoever was still living at home} out to brunch at some restaurant in Miami.  From what I remember, it was fancy and I had to dress up.  Bummer.  Dressing up wasn't the problem really, as I loved wearing something pretty {all girls do}.  It was having to wear something with lace on it that inevitably was near my face or neck and made me itch.  Yep, that was a fun afternoon.

These days my idea of dressing up is wearing one of my fave tee-shirts and a cute skirt.  With hoop earrings and sandals, of course.  Because the whole ensemble would just not be complete without the earrings, okay? Good.

You're in luck as one of my fave tee-shirt companies is having a great big awesome deal right now!  Wild Olive Tees is having a special where shipping is only $1.99 right now through May 1st.  Just a buck ninety-nine shipping, people!  And their tees are so fabulous. In fact, I wrote about how great they are here and here {psst! go check what I wrote...I'll wait}.  So go get one already! Your mom {or you} will loovve one of these tees and a box of chocolates for Mother's Day.  {But to hold you over until May 8th, keep the Easter candy real close.  You know, just to be safe.}