happy (belated) mother’s day!

FINALLY able to post pictures again, so i’m back with one more interruption before i finish up the vacation recap.  whew, came *this* close to moving blog sites if this “server is busy” business kept up much longer…

alrighty, so happy belated mother’s day! 

mikey had a special mother’s day celebration at his school last wednesday and i was looking forward to being there with him.  it had been mentioned that it was best to be just mom and preschooler (no siblings), but for me, it ended up being a choice to either bring the girls with me or not go at all.  mikey said he didn’t mind and actually wanted me to bring his sisters.  so even though i felt a bit loserish being the ONLY mom there with all her kids, i didn’t regret coming and did my best to focus on being appreciated (heh heh, not easy to do when you’re busy taking care of little ones).

definitely the best moment was when i first got there and mikey came up to me and unprompted, said, “happy mother’s day, mommy!”  his teacher overheard and said, “that’s so sweet of you, mikey!”  definitely his saying that was gift enough in itself.

i took our flip video thingy with me since it was more portable and got some pics and video from the day.  not the best photo quality, but better than nothing!

the teachers put together a “cookbook” filled with recipes that the kids came up with and dictated.  very cute and definitely something i’ll hang on to in the years to come.  i’ll post a few of the recipes later– too lazy to go downstairs to find it.

here’s mikey bringing me the cookbook.  though he didn’t want to part with it and would rather have looked at it himself…

in the classroom, the teacher read “i love you the purplest”, then had the mommies and kids make paper flowers together.  the assistant teacher then did calendar time with the kids before we headed over to have lunch together with the other classes.

got a quick pic of me and my boy.  and lauren.

aww…

phil had to work on actual mother’s day (sunday), which kinda bummed me out, but i knew it wasn’t his choosing and he really couldn’t do anything about it.  so i chose not to say anything about it to him (for once!) but again, i felt a bit loserish going to church with my three kiddos by myself and having everyone ask me if i came alone and feeling sorry for me. 

but!  phil more than made up for it later in the day when he got home from work bearing some beautiful flowers for me, a card from him, as well as a card from the kids (he said he picked it because it reminded him of the kind of mommy i am to our kids when he read it- wah!), AND all the fixings to make dinner for us that evening!  good man, my phil.

we also managed to get a pic of me with my three blessings.

though this is more like how we really roll…

but truly, these three are the best mother’s day gifts i could have ever been given.  the Lord has blessed me beyond what i deserve, absolutely.

the first blessing…

the second…

and the third…