Mother's Day Weekend Outfits

Good morning! I hope that you had a great Mother's Day and that you got to celebrate with your mom if you are not one and with your children if you have been blessed with motherhood.

It was a very busy weekend for me. On Saturday I took my daughter to a birthday party and then we had friends over for dinner with their two girls (aged 3 and 6). I don't usually dress up when we invite friends over but this girlfriend is always dressed up to the nine, so I made an effort and wore my Calypso dress that you have already seen here. Since refraining from shopping is a lost cause, this year my pledge is to wear everything that I buy with a target of 0 clothes with tags on at the end of the season (I am proud to say that I am almost on track).
This Calypso dress is the perfect dress for hosting a dinner party, it is very comfortable to wear and it won't distract you from entertaining your guests. I simply accessorized it with a sparkly bracelet. This bracelet looks like the real thing but it is a $10 Forever21 (I have to thank Gigi who had blogged about it back in the day):

We had really a good time (including my daughter, who collapsed around 10 after playing dress up all the evening with my friend's girls. They were so, so cute, the three of them).

The day after was Mother's Day and even if I didn't get to eat breakfast in bed as many of you did (I just can't delegate coffee-making), I had a very relaxing day. Now, I had already showed you what I was planning to wear (my lady lace popover and my new factory pencil skirt) but UPS screwed up my Mother's Day outfit. Long story made short, my lady lace had a flawn (a problem with the stitching around the neckline) and because the thing wasn't cheap, even with the 30% off, I decided that I wouldn't suck it up and on Thursday morning I took it back to my store where they took good care of it and reordered one for the same price and with free overnight shipping to boot so that I would get it in time to wear it on Sunday. The package was out for delivery on Friday so I was sure that my outfit was saved but for some reasons UPS missed me (ie they didn't deliver it and rescheduled for today. Thank you very much UPS, today is two days too late!) By the way, this is the second time that they miss an overnight shipping delivery, which makes me think that they can't make it in one day as a general rule.

In any case the result of the ordeal was that I had to come up with another outfit for Mother's Day brunch. Luckily it was very hot yesterday so I would have probably been sweating in my merino popover. I had my mind set on wearing a pencil skirt and my summer pencil skirt choices are very limited (I have three including the new one). In the end I picked the flower pastiche one and paired it with the very cheerful retro shell in popsicole pink (that I hadn't the occasion to wear yet since I bought it on the JCA when it was still fp online and in stores):

The shoes here are the Cate slingbacks, because this pencil skirt is loooong so definitively looks better worn with heels. But then I came to my senses and realized that heels weren't a viable choice for the day (that involved walking ten blocks to the restaurant and back, at least), so I changed them for a pair of flats and topped the outfit with a Jackie in champagne:

My daughter and husband had a little surprise for me. My daughter had drawn a beautiful Mother's Day card for me:

and they had framed a picture of the two of us to add to our wall of frames in the dining room.
Here we are outside the restaurant, after lunch (as you can see it was hot enough to wear the retro shell alone). BTW, if you watch the Real Housewifes of NYC, this is the French spot where Sonia and LuAnn had dinner with Brian (the painter) and LuAnn's boyfriend (whose name escapes me right now) a few episodes ago (it is my husband's favorite restaurant in the neighborhood and they have a great terrace):

As I told you I have a very busy week ahead so unless I have something very timely to let you know I will probably disappear for a few days and be back at the beginning of next week with plenty of pictures.
Have a nice week!