Celebrating Mother's Day

Things don't always go as planned.  As the saying goes, "Life is what happens when you're busy making plans", which basically means life doesn't stop just because you have things you want to do.  Sh!t still happens.  No pun intended.

And so it was that on Mother's Day, we had to improvise and come up with a back up plan.  It still was a pretty amazing Mother's Day.  I started the celebration early on the Saturday before with a date night.  The hubby and I decided to have dinner at our favorite Japanese restaurant.  We were supposed to do that on Sunday but I thought Mother's day should be spent with the people who made me a mother, my kids.  So we made other plans for Sunday.

On Sunday, we decided to take the entire brood, all 4 kids, to Sabana Park and we were all pretty excited.  I even packed a picnic lunch.  We had big plans of what we wanted to do that day at the park: play soccer, go skating.  But as we got to Sabana, it started to downpour.  We didn't even have a chance to get out of the car.  The rain made us rethink our plans and we started brainstorming alternate things to do.  Eventually we headed back for home and as luck would have it, the rain stayed in Sabana.  By chance we passed a park in San Pedro and our day was decided for us.  We stopped at the park and made the most of our day with the boys playing soccer and my daughter on her roller blades whizzing around the park.  After a fun filled afternoon, we had all worked up an appetite.  We'd eaten our picnic lunch in the car so we decided on pizza for dinner at Family Pizza, an Italian style restaurant not too far away.

It was a pretty great day even if it didn't go as I had planned it.  And most importantly, everyone had fun.