I guess I'll keep it!

Remember a few weeks back, the Maggie and Mommy day at the ceramics shop. My ugly attempt at creating a family heirloom with the sage green plate. Well, we used it the other night.

It was totally too big to have her eat directly off of, but it did turn out to be a nice charger plate. I placed her regular dinner plate on the square plate and she was so excited.

When I asked her to tell Daddy why she was special today, she replied, "because I helped pick up all the toys today." "Nope!" I said. Then she said, "Is it because I used my good manners like Quincy today?" "Nope!" Then I reminded her about what she did at school today, and she said, "Oh, yeah....I said the Pledge of Allegiance for the whole school today, over the intercom!"

Folks, that is a big deal in my book! Big enough to get to use the You are Special Today plate!

Max even asked what he had to do tomorrow to be able to use the plate!

So, I guess we're keeping the plate, even if it's big and ugly!

It's more about all the little and BIG reasons why we are using the plate than what it looks like, right!

Pottery pickup!

Remember the pottery that Maggie and I did last week on our girl's only day, well I picked it up today! Maggie's is darling and she LOVES it! Her little ice cream cone is so cute and she couldn't wait to put it in her room and put candy in it. I sadly informed her that candy inside the cone, in her room, wasn't going to happen and suggested that she put all of her "small treasures" in it! She liked that idea too!

As for my plate! It's okay....it's not "the red plate"and honestly I don't really know if I will use it. It's supposed to be food safe, but there are a few little places where the "cooker" left a few little uncooked marks! Plus it's WAY big. My kids would feel like they were eating from a giant's plate.

Oh, and let me just make an announcement to all of my 2 readers, I can NOT paint. I am able to paint a solid color on a big item, but adding anything cute isn't my thing....want proof?


Here they are! What do you think????

Her cone says, "I Love Ice Cream" and she wrote it all by herself!

Should I ship it off to Goodwill and order the red one???
I think maybe!