School Activities and Mothers Day

At the beginning on the month Jacob had "Mother Goose Day" and had to dress up as a character from Mother Goose. About the only Mother Goose nursery rhyme I could think of was Jack and Jill and a bunch of others that had girl characters: Little Bo Peep, Little Miss Muffet etc. I even searched the Internet for costume ideas. The night before I was really stressing out about what I was going to do for Jacob which meant of course I couldn't fall asleep. So literally after praying about it, I remembered this one:
Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater
Had a wife a couldn't keep her
Put her in a pumpkin shell
And there he kept here very well
So a doll and a Halloween Pumpkin later, Peter Peter was ready for school. I really hate school activities like this. It's just more work for me and I stress about Jacob's feelings. And I really hate when you have to spend money on it, like the Leprechaun trap he had to make.

This school activity was much easier. Adam was in charge of the letter Y poster for preschool. We had a lot of fun doing it together and trying to think of words that start with Y and a snack to bring (Yogurt, well frozen go-gurts). I was especially proud of myself for letting Adam do everyone and not caring that things weren't straight nor glue on properly and that he sometimes using capital letters and other times lowercase letters. Okay, so maybe I cared but I didn't say anything to Adam.

This school activity was stressful only because I had to find a babysitter for Matthew and Lucas. Luckily David was able to just come home for the afternoon. Granted he was late and I called him 3 times and sent him a text message before he called me back. But I did make it on time. Adam's preschool teacher put on a Mother's Tea for Mothers Day. I got a special invitation and the kids did a cute little program and then we had juice, cake and a relish tray. The kids had made decorations and place cards and the moms all had tea cups and the kids plastic ones. It was really cute and fun!

Adam made me this pretty flower pot for me and it still in my kitchen window sill now and I really love having it there while I do dishes. Lucky for David, our son is so cute because I stopped being mad that he was late and once again not answering my phone calls.

Jacob made me a plate at school and wrapped it up so beautifully and hid it for days until I opened it on Sunday. He was especially excited when I pulled out a plate from the cupboard that I had made my mom when I was in second grade. He thought is was awesome that we had both drawn trees on our plates for our moms. Note that Matthew is clutching the ipad. That is his favorite thing in the world and it is a sad commentary on my mothering skills at how well he can use the ipad and play his games. However when I caught the boys playing the ipad at 11:00 pm on a Saturday night in Jacob's bed they got grounded from all electronics for 3 days. Those sneaky little pesters!

I really loved getting my home-made gifts from my boys this year. Sunday evening my parents and siblings came to my house for a carne asada taco dinner which was delicious. We had a great time together. David's gift to me was building me a garden. I have loved gardening these past few years and love even more canning the produce. Our home now had a small, over grown patch of garden and that was not going to work. So after hours and hours of work my garden now looks like this. We still have to lay landscape mat, add soil and plant but the weather is really not cooperating with us. And the place was out of compost of Saturday. But when it gets all done it's going to be beautiful and I'm so grateful to David for all his hard work.