Mother's Day
Well, you knew my Mondays on Mothering post would have to be about Mother's Day didn't you? Speaking of which, here is an aside: Hi Mom! I forgot to call today (yesterday, but its just after midnight here and I am still awake...); but I sure did call on you birthday again this year and forget that it was your birthday. I figured it out today when we were sitting at McDonalds talking about all the May birthdays in the family. I'm sorry!
Okay, so that's one cool thing about mothering is that you suddenly understand your own Mom so much more.
We had an extra special day here as always. It all started when my oldest daughter was two. She and her father began the tradition of buying my container garden for Mother's Day. The children help me choose and plant the flowers for my garden, and my husband buys a smart new container or a cool watering wand or something special to add flair. I've never been to good at keeping flowers alive in the ground; but container gardens I can manage! (I know, go figure...)
So, this year my good husband had the foresight to look at the forecast. When he noticed thunder and lightning on the horizon; he talked the kids into taking me flower shopping and out to eat on Saturday, a day early. Since they are really big on tradition, this was no small task! We went to The Cheescake Factory; an indulgence we almost never allow. We went to Sears and replaced our dead microwave after almost four months of no microwave popcorn
. Then we went to Betty's Azalea Ranch for flowers. Same place we went the first time 7 years ago!!! It is good to be back. We decided to do lots of vegetables this year; for fun and to see if we can do it. Tomatoes of course, and green peppers, red peppers and jalepenos, lettuce and basil. I am really praying for some nice juicy tomatos this summer! We planted Marigolds with the tomatoes because I have heard that helps with insects. We also got some Zinnias, some Rose Moss, and my standard petunias. We also got at least three other flowers whose names I can't remember, but no matter because in the morning I am going to add pictures to this post. The best part was the planting of course. I love watching my littlest guy being extra "tarfoll" with the plants. (That's careful, in case you can read my Caleb-ese). He loved helping plant the pots, but his favorite part was the watering! I loved how capable my oldest two were, and how much they absorb these days. My four year old was equally adorable of course, and very industrious. Everything has to be "just so" for her and she did an excellent job.
So, altogether Saturday was a wonderful day! Then, I got to celebrate twice!! You can't beat that can you? Sunday we went to McDonald's for breakfast which is one of my favorite things to do; but something we don't splurge on very often anymore. Then, we went to church and came home for a nice relaxing afternoon. Well, I relaxed while my husband cooked lunch and installed the microwave
. Then, we went back out for supper at McDonalds. We then enjoyed Strawberries in Sugar and Pound Cake with Whipped Cream at home for dessert and finished the evening off watching The Greatest Game Ever Played (a movie) and eating popcorn. Anna had her strawberries on some yummy chocolate gluten free brownies. I will share more about that in another post. The littlest ones finally fell asleep during the movie and had to be carried to bed. It rained all day; but not a bit of damper did it make for us! I am so glad Dan planned ahead, for more then on heart would have been broken had we waited to buy flowers.Sharing special traditions are one of my favorite things about being a mother. What are your favorites?
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We had home church then went home for naps then quickly rushed off to Dinner with the boys and Troys parents. My mother is away for work but we have a date to go to a new Japanese restaurant we have been looking forward to trying out..
Troy had flowers sent to the house yesterday, this year in a basket and they are Oh so pretty! I love love my flowers. I know they are such a waist of $$$ but I do get such enjoyment out of having a beautiful , fragrant bouquet of flowers in my kitchen even if only for a week or two.
Here are some highlights from our day...
Troy & I at restaurant
“Monday Meanderings“ does not have to be my 5 focal points each week, you can list any 5 things that will better prepare you for the week and bless your home and your family! To learn more about "Monday Meanderings” please go HERE!
Bible Study/ Devotions ~ Reading my study Bible Chronologically along with studying Bible heroes, verses and devos with the boys. Doing a Devo with Troy
"Must Do"~ (Not the “To Do” list but the “Must Do” list!)
This week I Must ...
- Dr Apt with Micah for a very weird rash
- Work out and make a new meal plan
- Bake bread, its been ages
Homekeeping ~ Zone 1~ Time to get back into my Zones, the home has been a wrech since we launched THL and now that we have help and things are leveling off its time to get my house back in order. I will be working on one zone a month, not a week, a MONTH! lol I will share my progress each week!
Train Them Up~ We will be going over our new summer schedule (that I am still working on) I am going to try to incorporate MFW K with MFW 2nd starting this week. Say a prayer for me!
Menu
Monday ~ chicken enchiladas
Tuesday~ corn chowder
Wednesday~ Picnic dinner
Thursday~ Turkey burgers with the trimmings and baked fries
Friday~ Chicken Caesar salad
Saturday~ Leftovers
Sunday~ Supper at Troy’s parents
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Hello! I hope everyone had a Happy Mother's Day. Mine had it's ups and downs but considering everything that is going on that is to be expected. After church we went home to eat, then made a quick stop at Hubby's mom's to give her a card. We then went to see our oldest son, Prince Caspian, who is still at the grandparent's and then to my favorite restaurant which we have never seen so busy!!!! The good thing is they were give out $10.00 gift certificates to all the moms, so we will be able to enjoy them again soon and hopefully it will not be so busy!!! Little One was sweetly telling me that I was the best mother he could ever have and of course that totally made my day!!! He gave me a potted flower which was really beautiful and I hope to show pictures of soon. Prince Caspian gave me a paper flower project that he made which was really sweet. Last week, he had given me a silver ring that said "Love" on it, which of course I really treasure.
This week~
1. Bible Study/ Devotions
•Devotions for Homeschool Moms by Jackie Wellwood
2. "Must Do"
This week I “Must”
• We have an important meeting on Wednesday concerning Prince Caspian that we are praying goes well.
• Relax some!!!
3. Zone
•Unsure
4. Train Them Up
• Little One has some anger issues that need to be addressed.
5. Wellness-
•Drink more water- Getting better, but still not enough
•Take vitamin regularly - Still having trouble with this one.
•I need to start some gentle exercises
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::HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY, MOM!!::
Happy Mother’s Day to all moms!
Every year, my children ask me what I want for Mother’s Day and my birthday, and my reply has become pretty consistent: “I want the house cleaned up and my children to behave. ” That’s all: simple. Each year, I guess they figure that buying me a gift is a lot easier than my request!
This year, we are blessed because....Read More: The Many Ways They Say “I Love You”
Mother's Day posts:
Amanda: To The SUPEREST Mama In The World!
Rachel: Happy Mother's Day... Mother Dear...
blessings~
I had a breast reduction when I was 18. The reduction has effected how much milk I make. I've tried with babies #2 & #3 to nurse. I didn't try very hard, though. Honestly, I didn't have enough information, and I was very much into 'scheduling' my baby which kinda made the nursing thing more difficult. Now, I'm on a quest to figure out how to successfully nurse this next baby.
Here's a website about breastfeeding after surgery that I'll be exploring in preparation for September. Out of all these pregnancies, this is the first time I've come across it. How exciting!
Here is what we did in our Tot School this week:
Tot School started out with a full day outside. The whole family worked outside all day (for the most part) after some main school subjects were completed. It was a great day! We even ate outside by a fire!
Before heading outside, "Precious" played with the counting rack (and a little peek-a-boo).
Here are my favorite shots from our day outdoors!
Trampoline Fun:
The balls are soft and from a ballpit. It makes jumping more fun. We also collected balls of a certain color that I called out. "Precious" just gathered two like colors and I told her the color they were! She currently likes yellow!
We even had a basic lesson about static electricity- can you see why? 
They also visited the swings....
...plus a ride with big sister!
Then a quick wave to our shadow! (look how many lessons can be taught easily outside: colors, static, shadows,etc.)
Don't forget to stop and smell the flowers!!!
(By-the-way: She is smelling "bleeding hearts"- one of my favorite flowers. I love how they really are the shape of a pink heart with a drop coming out. Plus she has hearts on her shirt! She pulled the whole bunch off the plant in her grasp
- but it will grow back thankfully)
"Peanut" did some things for his flower lapbook. Here he colored the flowers with colored pencils then finger painted the border.
The next day we did something new: Pom Pom Alphabet pages. The kids thought it was fun however they are just starting to learn the letter shapes. "Precious" watched "Peanut" and then joined in the fun!
It didn't take long and the schoolroom looked like this:
Then we also had homeschool softball. My hubby was along the one day so I took my 2 little ones and a friend's daughter for a walk around the park. I pushed "Precious" in a stroller and my son and his friend (from our church) walked along with me. It was so nice. The kids were so sweet and were looking at everything!
We even found some flowers from a dogwood tree and I was able to show them how it represented Jesus' death on the cross for us! (another great flower idea for our lapbook, too! I wish I had some kind of printable. Maybe I will do a search!)
One of our favorite books this week (in honor of being Mother's Day) was...
What Moms can't do! by Douglas Wood.
It was cute and made us giggle!
...And here is how books get read in our house sometimes.
"Precious" is such a copy-cat. She has to hold a book too. My "Princess" is reading the top book to her!
Again..."peek-a-boo,Mom!"
Have a great week with your family!
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It's kind of fun to have Mother's day in a country that isn't celebrating that day. I mean, there are no crowds in the restuarants, no tacky presents around, your kids have to make you homemade cards because there aren't any generic ones in the shops, and you get to walk around all day feeling like a queen - and you are the only one who does!!
I knew something was up when they all started whispering just before teatime last night. Then I decided to help Dh out by hunting our some card making supplies and leaving them out in the school room. The boys went in and when they saw them they said 'How did you know we were going to make you are card?' 
Chalk one more up for 'Mommy's know everything!' LOL!
There was a lot of tooing and frowing and asking Dad how to spell this and that before bedtime - and I remained blissfully engrossed in my TV show, pretending not to notice a thing!
Then I was woken this morning to breakfast in bed! And such a breakfast it was too! Have you ever been given three petit fours for your breakfast? No? Well, I have! Now dont' get me wrong - I LOVE PETIT FOURS!!!! And have since I was a tiny girl. Something about those tiny sweet cakes just does it for me, you know? But not even I could face that much straight sugar first thing in the morning! LOL! I did eat 1 1/2 before giving up and finding something more nutritous for breakfast!
I also had a cup of my favourite tea, a flower off my violet plant, and the two beautiful homemade cards! They were so creative and so individual! They both copped out and wrote 'Happy Mom's Day' because 'Happy Mother's Day' Was just too much writing! Boys!!
There is one other American lady at our church and I made a bee line to with her Happy Mother's day since I figured no one else would. She said that her Dh hadn't even mentioned it yet! Yikes! She was missing her kids in the states and her grandbaby too! They are missionaries here and miss their family at times alot.
Then her husband got up the front and wished us both Happy Mother's Day! So I think he got himself out of the doghouse! LOL! And we both got a few friends giving us wishes after the meeting.
After church we drove to one of my favourite restuarants called 'Big Wok'. Is is an all you can eat chinese buffet with the yummiest chinese food you have ever had. And it is one of those places where almost everyone who works there is actually chinese! They love kids in this restaurant and never complain about the babies making noise.
We like going for a big lunch as it is almost half the price at lunch time! The only things you dont' get for lunch are one of the counters where they make things to order and the sushi bar. Monkey was dissapointed because he loves sushi! But since everything else was included he found plenty of things he liked!
The restaurant was surprisingly quiet for a weekend, which was nice. And we got to sit in the one small section that was air conditioned - it is quite warm today so that was really appriciated! They have fresh fruit, cakes, an ice cream machine and a chocolate fountain with marshmellows to dip in it for dessert. Of course there is always the more traditional banana fritters and syrup too! That was my choice - yummy!
The boys had a quiet time this afternoon and then went out to the evening meeting with Dh since there was a missionary speaking tonight. So it was just me and Pumpkin left here.
So what do I do with a quiet house on Mother's Day evening? Watch a nice movie? Do some handcrafts? Read a good book? Catch up my knitting? No! I go out and build a shelf unit in the shed/office in the garden for storing the MUS stock on!! LOL!
Seriously! We bought in on Friday night, and I thought I'd let Pumpkin play in the garden with some balls and the slide and empty boxes while I assembled it and unpacked all the boxes of stock onto it! It went together fairly easily and most of the stock is now organized!! Hooray!! No more climbing up into a wall closet in the boys bedroom to fill orders!
I still have to move down the stock that is in the cupboard upstairs, but we should be able to finish that tomorrow. It will just be so nice to be able to get to things more easily!
Would you believe though that Pumpkin doesn't like grass? I mean you put him down on it and he screams!!
He doesn't like playing outside at all! We are going to have to work on that one. This baby cried to be picked up and screamed most of the time. I have never met a baby (especially a boy one) who wouldn't have had the time of his life with 9 huge boxes big enough to climb into! I put him in one to show him what to do and he tipped it over to get out and simply screamed because it tipped over! LOL! Silly sausage. He'll learn. The outside to for having fun in.
So that's my Mother's day. A very nice one too.
What did you do with yours??