It was Mother´s Day in Brazil recently - or should I say Mother´s Week. Brazilians take any chance for a celebration extremely seriously but sometimes I´m left wondering how they manage to get any work done in between it all. The demands on my time to ensure I am given a suitable Mother´s Day celebration by my kids have been huge.... First my youngest gets sent home with a request in his school diary for a photo of him enjoying "a moment of leisure" with me. Easier said than done as he doesn´t sit still long enough for photos. Then when I´ve finally figured out how and where to get rapid photos developed here and delivered the thing into school, my oldest gets sent home a few days later with the same request. There then ensues a series of cutting and sticking activities to be done with them at home and delivered into school ready for party day. Which of course is spread out over party week and involves two separate trips to school for two different activities with each of my sons. To be fair to school, the celebrations themselves were wonderful, I´d perhaps just prefer a little less of them and more time spent educating my kids and letting me get on with my work. But that sounds very baa humbug of me so insteads I´ll just wish all the fellow mums out there a happy Brazilian Mother´s Day.