Even though, Mother's Day isn't about getting gifts, I received some fabulous homemade gifts from my favorite little people. Maggie made a cute little book at school with "real" stuff glued inside, along with a wonderful handmade card. And Max made a beautiful pin out of a puzzle piece, feather and a button. I still have the puzzle piece pin that Maggie made me in preschool. I love how excited they get to give their gifts. It's so precious.
They also made some great gifts in their Sunday School classes. These teachers are so creative and come up with really special gifts for the kids to make...Max made a super cute pillow with his hand prints on it, he just came in to tell me that I forgot to sleep with it. I'll sleep with it tonight!
I also got a beautiful gerbera daisy from my prayer partner...don't know if she's reads the blog...but if you do, I LOVE it!
Speaking of gifts, I'm typing on my new laptop as we speak. It did arrive before Sunday! In fact, it arrived on Friday, however I was not able to even touch a key prior to yesterday. Andy got it all charged, loaded all the goods, did some other geeky-computer-guy-knows-all-stuff to it and now, I'm up and running. It takes a little to get used to...but that's the fun of it. Thanks again honey...I love it...but still love you more!
Yesterday at our annual Mother's Day cookout, we also celebrated Maggie's birthday. She will turn six tomorrow...boy has the time flown by. She wanted a Star Wars party. My girl is so into Star Wars, crazy I know, but whatever she wants...it's her birthday. We had a little cake with Darth Vador and Luke Skywalker on it. We also got her a Darth Vador pinata. She loved it.
She got a ton of great gifts...a great big "Thank You!" to all my family for all the great gifts. She already wore her new bike helmet, she loves the new pink crocs, and she can't wait to watch her new Star Wars, Clone Wars movie. Oh, and her two new webkinz...the camel (remember she rode the camel in Arizona?!?!) and the lion (she is a Lincoln Lion....school mascot) she can't wait to get on the computer. Oh, and she will be able to get on the computer...while I sit and type from the laptop! Yippee!
We have enjoyed spending time with our nephew/cousin Quinton this weekend. The kids have played, and played and played some more. I love when the kids just hang outside all day and when they come in, they are so wore out that they just crash. That is what summer and nice weather is all about. Even though my garage looks like I'm having a garage sale every day, with ALL the toys we have in there...it's a good thing.
As I updated in my last post, I have found my camera. I would lay awake at night trying to figure out what in the world I had done with it. I was so afraid that I had really lost it. Thankfully, I was cleaning out some things in Maggie's room. Hanging on her doorknob, is her bag that she always takes to church. I was cleaning out church bulletins, Sunday School papers, candy wrappers, etc and there at the bottom of her bag was my camera. I had put the camera in her bag on Confirmation Sunday. With all the extra stuff I had to carry that morning, I threw it in her bag and off we went. What a great feeling I had when I found it...we all did the "happy dance!"
The big birthday party will be held tomorrow. Maggie is so excited. We are having her party in the church gym. Since school is out at 11:00 (remember we only have 1/2 day Kindergarten here...) we are having the parents take the kids right over to the church, we will eat lunch, play some games, do a craft, eat dessert and play some more. It will all be done and cleaned up by 2:00, so that this mom and get home to rest. I hope they have fun. It's a lot of work to get this all ready.
Sorry for this massive mess of things going on in my mind. Hope your Monday is marvelous!