~Surprise flowers for Mother's Day this Morning~

This morning when walking out the front door Mr Armchair saw these gorgeous flowers at the front door........a surprise for me for Mother's Day (although they should have arrived yesterday)

How beautiful are they........lovely Paeonies and Pink Carnations

Thank You so very, very much Darling Girl

And when speaking to her later on she said I could enjoy Mother's Day all over again so I think I just might do that!!!

JoJo chose a lovely beaded necklace for me with a shell butterfly and she also made a lovely velvety card 

Mr Armchair gave me some new Body Lotion, Aerin by Estee Lauder

A little reading material here

I've been staring at this boxed set of Game of Thrones since Christmas

Obviously I stared hard enough and they are here lol

Also a lovely book by local Author Susan Southam the same Author of Velvet Pears

These beautiful books tell the story of Foxglove Spires at Tilba......

Last year my Son (who is back safely now from trekking) gave me some Champagne that we had for lunch yesterday set up by Mr Armchair

We also went and saw the 50 year celebration  of Sound of Music.......at JoJo's request!!!

Meanwhile my Sister Brigita sent me a lovely pic of her together with my Mum

so I sent one back to her of one of me and JoJo

A lovely Mother's Day and a lovely day

Hope all you Mums out there also enjoyed your Mother's Day

Till next time......Dzintra

Another Surprise Visit...For Mother's Day...and a yummy soup recipe!!!

We had a lovely unexpected surprise visit from our Son on Mother's Day weekend...

and for a treat he took me out for a Mother's Day dinner the night before to one of our favourite Restaurants...On The Pier

Marinated Olives with Feta and Grisini...

Oysters...

Prawns and Fat Chips...

Persian Salad...

Beef...

Salmon...

Ice Cream...

My favourite...Creme Brulee

Hot Chocolate...

And here we are at the end of the evening...

Thank You so much dear James!!!

A few weeks ago we used up the last of the Summer  tomatoes

and Basil...

and made this easy peasy Basil and Tomato Soup...

so very tasty!!!

For the recipe visit my food blog over My Dolce Vita here...

Bon Appetit...Dzintra

Mother's Day 09...

Here we are...Mother's Day all over for another year...and what a wonderful...peaceful day it was...with a surprise element in it!!!To start the morning...a 'flower ball' made by JoJo at her day programme...and she was so excited bringing it home on Friday... along with 2 little pot pourri satchets from her Sister and a new CD...
Now I too can get 'Lost in Austen' with this book...and in Jane Austen's words...
Ah! There's nothing like staying home for real comfort...

A gorgeous candle...Rose and Sandalwood...
It is said that you burn a pink candle to draw love into your home and environment...
Even though JoJo's Brother and Sister weren't able to be with us on Sunday they were very much a part of the day...

Close up of a little scrapbooked notebook...

Surprise No 1...DH actually went into a patchwork shop and purchased Lynette Anderson's Simple Stitches Needle Case kit for me...wow, I loved it...and co-incidentally unbenownst to him had admired it...a primitive style and an aged stitchery along with little wooden buttons...

Being a day where we all took it easy I straight away started ageing the fabrics ready for the start of the needle case...

But the biggest surprise was yet to come...

this beautiful floral arrangement from my Son!!!

Completely unexpected as he hadn't done this before...

Thank You to my dear Family for making me one happy Mum on Sunday...Love to you all ♥

Today a new sun rises for me;

everything lives, everything is animated,

everything seems to speak to me of my passion,

everything invites me to cherish it~Anne De Lenclos~

I hope all you Mums and Grandmas all had a beautiful day...Dzintra ♥