Mother's Day was always going to be difficult in our family, it is the first mother's day without my mum (passed away Oct 3rd).

Originally I wanted to to forget that mother's day existed and lets face it Mia is too young to realise it is mother's day by herself.

Luckily my ex husband thought mother's day was more important than that and talked to Mia about it and took her shopping to buy me a gift.  Of course then that was all Mia could talk about, so I had to come up with an idea of something we could do together.

With all the exercise I do Mia always wants to come running with me and of course I always say no it is too far, so I was very excited to see an ad for a mother's day event at Lake Monger.

3.5km around the lake (walk or run) so I registered us and bought Mia some very fast running shoes.  She was very excited and counted down the sleeps.

Its wasn't the greatest of weather - a little rain followed by humid heat but it was a great morning.  Coffee was available for the mums who got up early and there were plenty of people participating.

the idea behind the event was to raise money for breast cancer reasearch, something very close to my families heart.

I am very happy that we celebrated the day and the event was so well run I think we will do the same thing again next year.

Oh and the present she chose was fabulous - a beautiful new tea pot for all the tea I drink - I don't really drink tea :)