I noticed my last post was at Easter. Now I am posting about Mother's Day. I hope to have time to blog about more than holidays going forward. We've finished a home improvement project that was a huge time commitment. That being said, I had to let other things slide. I am gearing up for VBS at my church. My projects are planned, my materials list is in, and we have a workdays to start prepping stuff this week and next. I must say I have been blessed by the wonderful people God has put on my team this year. I can tell they will be fabulous. We are doing the art room for preschool. How fun is that??? I want to have all the prep work done well before VBS, so I can sit back, execute the plans, and not be stressed by it all.
Last summer, I was CRAZY busy all summer. I will not do that to myself again. I hope to spend many days at the pool teaching my kids to swim, AGAIN. Every summer I teach my kids to swim, then we spend some time at the beginning of the summer relearning. I really wanted to put them on a summer swim team, but I am also cutting back on activities to avoid the CRAZY summer. I think my daughter is going to take gymnastics lessons this summer, while my son takes a break from gymnastics. I really wanted to put them in classes at the same time, but the class times don't match up. Also, I will say...classes are not cheap. Little man and I will get some quality time while sister takes her class. She looks forward summer gymnastics because I won't let her take during the school year. I am planning some morning schooling activities for us as well. I am the mean Mama who makes my children school year round. There is tremendous loss of knowledge with a long summer break. We do school to keep this from happening. Maybe one day the successful professionals my children become will thank me or maybe they will just hate me for it.
I started this post to talk about Mother's Day. On Mother's Day, the kids bounced up out of bed at 7:00. Jason and I just groaned and rolled over. We have worn ourselves out with our project. The kids were so cute. They made invitations to a party. Jason and I each got one. They also posted signs leading up stairs to the party room. I sat in the hula hoop with a crown on my head to open...THE gift. My daughter's teacher made each mother a book. The students in the class drew a page about why he/she loved his/her mother. She them compiled them all into a book and bound it. It was really cute. Jason gave me a beautiful rose bush. The flowers are white with red tips. I love roses. I nursed three bushes back from the brink of death at our house in Woodridge. I haven't had any roses to mess with since we moved from Illinois. I'm excited about this one. My first challenge right now is to keep alive through our drought. We had a great morning at church. Our church always gives gift to the oldest mother. They have ALL the mothers stand up to start. At 33, I sincerely doubt I am the oldest mother, but I did it anyway. I used to hide in the balcony and not feel weird about standing up, but now we sit on the bottom floor and well, it is weird. Two sweet 90 year olds won this year in our service. They were as cute as could be. After church, we came home and later went to my Mom's house. We ate and spent time together. It is a blessing to be back in Houston and get to see my Mom and Grandmother so regularly. I enjoy getting to see my family.
I have several things to accomplish today. I'm off.
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