May is the best month of the year for me! Truly…it’s Mother’s Day, my birthday and our anniversary! That spells big presents for Moi!!

The hard part is the fact that my mom lives 1500 miles away. I used to just send gift cards and homemade pictures from the kids, but last year I found a really pretty bouquet of flowers for her. I was excited because the picture online was really pretty, and I chose my two favorite flowers, Iris and Tulips. Not knowing what her favorite was, I was going for the “gift from my heart” approach. I was really excited to learn that these are her two favorite flowers as well! I used 1800flowers.com last year because they offered a mothers day gift delivery, but mostly because I had heard their commercial on the radio and found the best prices. I will stay with them this year as well for the simple fact that my mom not only received her flowers on time, and in one piece…but they bloomed for over 2 weeks after Mother’s Day. I can’t get the Tulips in my yard to bloom for two weeks straight! I was going to try to find something fun this year, like multi-colored wildflowers (which are beautiful) but once I saw the picture of the Iris and Tulip bouquet, I’m sold every time!

Since the Chef is at work making every other mother in the Chicagoland area’s Mother’s Day special…he has been known to order me flowers as well. I have hinted in the past about the Iris/Tulip route…and he’s never quite gotten the hint. This year I think I will print out the photo and the product code, and tape it to his steering wheel! That should do the trick!