Happy Mother's Day!

Here we are, Sunday, May 8th, Happy Mother's Day to all of the rockin' mom's out there! So last week we booked our tickets home. July 5th for me and the girls, July 15th for Ethan and Chloe. We have a little less than 2 months and I'm starting to have that feeling like we need to do everything Paris has to offer before it's time to go. However, as you might imagine, Paris is getting very crowded with tourists so some things are becoming harder and harder to do. Yesterday though, we did something we've never done and that was go to Parc Floral next to the Chateau de Vincennes just outside of Paris. It was super gorgeous, as all the spring flowers were in full bloom. Plus there is plenty of grassy forest area for you to enjoy a picnic or in our case, an ice cream. I think the girls would agree that the most fun thing we did was rent a quad type bike/carriage thing and pedal around for a half an hour trying to avoid running into french people who refuse to go out of their way to get out of the way (or get their small children out of the way). It was still fun, maybe even more fun with the added challenge of dodging the frenchies. Then last night, while the girls got to chill with a babysitter, we went out to a cool new resto called Grazie. It's actually a cocktail bar with a wood burning pizzas for dinner. Behind the bar was a super talented, super tanned, super tattooed Italiano mixing up the goodies. I had an awesome martini: vodka, basil, grapefruit juice and honey. I had to use much restraint in not ordering a second. Ethan also had a fancy martini, followed by a sazerac, which the bartender was almost overly excited about making (Ethan said it was good but not a real sazerac because he didn't use rye). The pizza was delicious. We both ordered pizzas with arugula on them, so we decided it was healthy. And Ethan even reasoned that there were antioxidants in the basil in my drink, not to mention all the vitamin C in the grapefruit juice. I had to tell him that just because it's green doesn't mean it has antioxidants. And usually if it has vodka in it, that would cancel out the positive effects of the antioxidants, that are not present in basil, anyways. And we've all heard the vitamin C argument before, sounds good on paper but I'm not buying it. Anyways, Grazie, in the 3rd, near the Bastille, if you are in Paris and want to feel young and cool for one night, look it up.

Having only indulged in one cocktail and one glass of wine last night, I wasn't in horrible shape this morning to greet Mother's Day. My kids, with a little help from dad, made me a gorgeous breakfast of crepes, baked blueberry french toast, eggs and fruit salad. Everything was fabulous! French mother's day or La Fete des Meres isn't until May 29th but I'm pretty sure there was enough food there this morning to last us until then so at least they won't have to go through all that trouble twice! Happy Mother's Day!