Mom's Headed Back to California....

This morning we had to say goodbye to my mom, who has been with us since November 11th.  She's headed back to her home in California, and we are truly sad to see her go!  She was an irreplaceable amount of help and good company to us while I was on bed rest, and while we had to go back and forth to the hospital for several weeks before Luca came home.  I really don't know what we would have done without her!!
Vince was already moping this morning, "Where's Grandma?!, why isn't she here in the kitchen like every morning!?".  I made sure to wake him up to say goodbye to her this morning, but I guess it's going to take a while before we get used to her absence.  Zoë has recently started yelling "Mama... where are you?!" when she's walking around the house sometimes (except the 'where are you' is turned into one long word of 'whehaaahyhhuu!').  She'll interchange mama with Dada... Vincent.... whoever she is looking for at the moment.  Well this morning it was "g'ama..... whehaaaahyhhuu!?".... for a little while.  Heart breaking!  We are all just hoping that she comes back to visit soon!!  I secretly hope that she misses the kids so much that she jumps back on the plane ASAP and comes back for a visit! 

Now I cannot say it was all roses and good times while she was here, we definitely got on each others' nerves here and there... but for as much time as she was here, I'd have to say it went pretty darn smoothly.  Here's a few photos I never got around to putting up:

My mom prepared some Swiss Fondue for us and we had a fun night of lots of cheese!  It was time the kids got introduced to their Swiss Heritage ;)

My mom was a trooper, considering we dragged her to almost every birthday party and Doctor's appointment we had!  Here's one picture I've been wanting to get for a long time: Vince with the Midwife that helped deliver him!  My mom wound up in that pic too....

She got a good handle on how to deal with Luca too

She got in lots of snuggling time...

And of course, we wait until the last day to get a photo of Grandma with all her grandchildren!  I'm soo bad it's ridiculous

ok, this time don't forget Luca please!!

 

We are sad to see you go mom!!  We'll try to get along without you!  I threatened that Vince would be lucky if he even got cold cereal in the mornings now, let alone the huge plate of bacon and eggs he used to get from Grandma every morning.  But this morning, after my mom left, I stayed up and made him his own big plate of bacon and eggs.... and somehow I managed to get Zoë dressed and fed, made Luca his bottle, dressed and fed him... and was able to get dressed and eat something myself.  Yes....maybe, just maybe... I will survive without my mom here.... but it won't be easy.