{"id":152020,"date":"2017-04-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gracious-khorana.45-76-20-142.plesk.page\/mothers-day-gift-guide-cook-gardner-crafter\/"},"modified":"2023-09-18T10:31:28","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T10:31:28","slug":"mothers-day-gift-guide-cook-gardner-crafter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/localmilkblog.com\/2017\/04\/mothers-day-gift-guide-cook-gardner-crafter.html","title":{"rendered":"Mother\u2019s Day Gift Guide | For the Cook, Gardener, and Crafter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This is going to be my first mother\u2019s day with a baby. We\u2019re currently in Kyoto, and I just watched her learn to crawl on the tatami mat of our machiya, and, around the same time as learning to crawl, she\u2019s also developed an awareness of object permanence. By which I mean, for the first time, she cries when I leave. Cries when she sees me if she\u2019s in someone else\u2019s arms (save when she\u2019s meeting new friends for the first time, then she\u2019s happy to be passed around!). And, stupidly, I\u2019m surprised. I work. And I\u2019m not fun. I\u2019m a terrible clown; that\u2019s dad\u2019s province. So sometimes I wonder if she\u2019ll like me. And then when she cries for me, reaches for me, snuggles up to me to sleep I realize that being mom & loving her is enough. I don\u2019t have to be the funny one. It\u2019s okay if I work. She loves me like I love her: unconditionally, no matter what.<\/p>\n

I teamed up with Mother magazine (find an interview and photos of Eula & I in our Tennessee home here!<\/a>) and Amazon to put together this Mother\u2019s Day gift guide for all different sorts of moms. We have gifts for the gardener, gifts for the crafter, and gifts for the cook (that would be me!) Though I am partial to my copper watering can\u2026<\/p>\n

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