I started my Mother’s Day in the shower at 5:20am getting ready to take Hanna to a swim meet. If you had asked me how to recreate the perfect Mother’s Day it starts and end with the words “swim” and “meet.”

 
Chloe gave me a card that read, “Dear Mother and Dad.” Because why leave anyone out? Why not wish the mailman a “Happy Mother’s Day?”

 
Before handing it to me she said the words every Mother waits all year to hear, “Happy Mother’s Day! Did you get us anything?”

 
Ellie gave me a jar with a label written in chalk, “30 Things I love about you.”

 
When she attempted to pass me the jar, Hanna intercepted and Hanna’s thumb smudged the “30” into something unrecognizable, at least to Ellie who then attempted to lay a WWF-style smack down on her chalky-handed sister who was not ready for Ellie’s other jar, “30 Ways To Cripple You.”

 
One of the thirty things she loved about me was that “You are my friend?” The question mark threw me too but onward and upward as they say in the Mother’s Day trenches.

 
Chloe also gave me a book of recipes made by her entire Kindergarten class.

 
It was of course adorable to find out the dangerous amounts of salt most of us are using and if you think letting kids give cooking instructions isn’t an insane fire hazard. Some of the recipes called to cook things like pasta for ten hours. It’s hilarious if you have a sense of humour, not so if English is your second language and you haven’t baked a cake in a frying pan before.

 
Chloe’s submission to the book was for “Mom’s Best Vanilla Milkshakes.”

 
Ingredients: vanilo ise kream and milk
Steps: Put ice cream in the blender
Put milk in it.
Hold onto the lid so it doesn’t go shooting out.
Turn it on fast so it is loud. (She added, “So the kids can’t hear the tv”)
Put straws in it.
Then serve it to the kids.
Drink it. It’s Yum.

 
At no time does Chef Chloe mention her dear Mother or Dad being the recipients of these fabulous milkshakes because Mother’s Day is all about the kids.

 
And I wouldn’t have it any other way.