It is my first full day of being 27, and I have a birthday hangover.

I woke up this morning with my incredible gift still on my wrist.  I realize that I didn’t post any pictures yesterday, so here you go.  The first thing I saw when I opened the wrapping paper was:

And I opened it to find this:

So beautiful.  So, so beautiful.  Movado is my favorite watch brand.  My mom and S went in on it together as a special gift for me, and I just do not ever want to take it off!

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!

I got other wonderful gifts as well.  A lot of Steelers stuff, including a stocking:

Two christmas ornaments,

A Terrible Towel with all of our superbowl victories (which looks like it will be good for another year……..),

And a handbag!

I also got a pair of cute pajamas and a beautiful necklace from my mom, and the book The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown from S.  I have really been wanting to read that book.  My dad and his wife got me a beautiful necklace with my birthstone, too.I am so excited.  I have the best family and boyfriend in the world!

I continued my Nutella for breakfast kick this morning with Nutella toast and some blackberries.

Lunch was a great salad.

Mixed salad greens, marinated olives, avocado, grape tomatoes and an Italian veggie sausage.

And a bowl of raspberries on the side.

Then my mom and I did a little shopping.  We stopped by Whole Foods again, because she needed to pick up a few more things, and I finally tried a Green Superfood bar.  I have never bought one before, because they are so ridiculously expensive, but have wanted to try one so bad.

I got a chocolate one and chocolate peanut butter, and today I ate the chocolate.  It was definitely GREAT.  But it is just really hard for me to spend $2.50 for one bar, on sale.  Argh.

My mom, bless her heart, cooked dinner for S and I.  She made delicious chicken breasts with eggplant tomato sauce.  I ate mine on top of whole wheat pasta shells and broccoli.

All topped with parmesan cheesy goodness.

And finished off the night with a slice of my birthday ice cream cake.

The remainder of this cake is NOT going to last long.  Despite the fact I am the only one eating it, as my mom doesn’t eat sugar and S doesn’t like dessert.   Oh well, *sigh*, more for me.

Ok, off to bed again.  These days with my mom here are flying.  The good news is that S and my mom love eachother – they are really getting along well and I am so happy!

G’night, ya’ll.