Happy Mother's Day!

What a wonderful Mother's Day!  This morning MLD diapered and dressed the babies while I prepared a bagels and lox breakfast.  MLD cleaned up and then helped get the kids ready for a grocery shopping trip.  Actually, he offered to take the babies and the list and go without me, but since it was raining outside I thought he was verging on craziness for even thinking of pulling it off;  so off we went.

By the time we got home and the babies went down for a nap, MLD set to work on his real Mother's Day gift to me.  You see, our strawberries are lookin' mighty fine:

And we'd like to eat them.  Not feed the squirrels, birds and other random wildlife.  So while some mothers may be treated to a day at the spa, a fancy dinner, a new washing machine or flowers and chocolates, I was treated to a custom-made wildlife cage (which is not as racy as it sounds, I promise).

Apparently it was a breeze to assemble:

And then we dropped it into place:

Can't wait to see if this actually works.  If it does, we'll have more strawberries than we know what to do with!

Happy Mother's Day to all!