To my mum...

I've come so far since our first Mother's Day together:

I've have had so many good laughs with you,

been so many places with you and 

learned so much from you.

Thank you for having fun with me,

protecting me

and loving me so much.

Dad and I miss you very much, and we are looking forward to having you home with us again.  

Happy Mother's Day, dearest mum!

Baked By Yael!

Last year I ate a bagel that changed my life. It was baked by one of Jason's colleagues at his law firm in DC. I ordered a bunch more and even brought a bag of them to the west coast when I visited family out there.


Since then, Yael has launched her new business: Baked by Yael.



She makes everything from raspberry bars, to cookies, to rugelach. Everything of hers that I've tried is absolutely delicious!



For Mother's Day this year I sent my mom some of Yael's cake pops and she absolutely loved them!



When I told Yael that I wanted to do a blog post about how much we love her products, she offered a 10% discount to Milton's Manor readers for the rest of the month! Just mention Milton's Manor when you place your order. You're welcome. ;)

www.bakedbyyael.com

Happy (US) Mother's Day!

Happy (UK) Mother's Day!

We began the day with a sweet post-breakfast photo shoot:

We were having a lot of fun . . .

. . . until someone decided it would be more fun to eat her hands . . .

We then had a mama and baby photo shoot in the living room. We dressed Charlotte in a dress that we bought while on our honeymoon in Mexico. My friend Alli made her gorgeous sweater.

Bare white walls and bright morning light (and a talented photographer) made for some great photos!

Then we were off on an adventure in our new city. After quite a bit of walking, we enjoyed a lovely tea service complete with tea sandwiches and the most delicious scones (sufficiently slathered with clotted cream) I have ever had:

We all enjoyed our meals:

We then did quite a bit more walking (and a bit of shopping at Covent Garden) before heading to a lovely little Jesuit church for an evening Mass. It was a short walk from there to a tube station that took us home in no time.

It was a fantastic first mother's day. The best part, by far, was spending it with my two favorite people in the whole world: