Mother’s Day Breakfasts – Flowers, Cakes and Happy Smiles


Tuesday, March 24th, 2015

Mother’s Day takes on a whole new meaning when you have children yourself; any cynicism about made-up, commercial occasions is displaced, once you get that first homemade card or toddler-produced breakfast in bed. Even if said toddler usually eats most of it!

So it’s not surprising to see such happy smiles in our gorgeous series of photographs below – all taken on Friday March 13th, at our Mother’s Day breakfasts.

In Giraffe Lucan, there was a very pretty display of cakes to welcome mothers, and huge smiles from the children who surprised them.

Giraffe Lucan Mother's Day Breakfast

In Giraffe Adamstown, as well as breakfast, there was a lovely heart-shaped display, featuring photos of the children with their mothers.

Giraffe Adamstown Mother's Day breakfast

The children loved pointing out their own photos to their mothers, and everyone enjoyed the delicious treats – of course!

Giraffe Adamstown Mother's Day breakfast

In Giraffe Rathbourne, children surprised their mothers with beautiful, colourful bouquets of flowers that they made themselves:

Giraffe IFSC Mother's Day Flowers

Here you can see pre-schoolers from the Zambia room in Rathbourne with the finished work, didn’t they do well!

Giraffe IFSC Mother's Day

In Giraffe Cherrywood, our carer Emma had a wonderful surprise when her little boy Matthew presented her with gifts he had made for her. Look at the lovely smiles!

Giraffe Cherrywood Mother's Day

In Giraffe IFSC, we had a beautiful, bright breakfast table with fresh tulips and daffodils, which were then presented to the mums. There were colourful balloons, and a very tempting array of cakes and treats. What a lovely way to start the day – the photos of mums and children below tell it all.

Mother's Day breakfast Giraffe IFSC Flowers and cakes from our favourite people – no wonder everyone is smiling!

And all the mums in Giraffe Park West were greeted with breakfast and a flower too – again presented by their children.

Giraffe Park West Mother's Day

Gorgeous photos of happy mums and delighted children!

Because of course, when you’re a parent of a small child, that’s what Mother’s Day is really about, the excitement on small faces as they present a card or a flower or even just a hug. And actually, that might just be the best gift of all.


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