Mother's Day- Planting Seeds

Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there. This is a special day for us to celebrate what motherhood means to us. Some moms want to spend it with their families and some choose to spend it taking a break from the kiddos. However you choose to celebrate, I hope you enjoy your special day.

                                        I have spent the morning with the young ones who get up early. Liam made

me breakfast(poured me a bowl of chocolate cheerios)and gave me his gifts that he made in school. These handmade gifts are always my favorites and the ones I cherish. This year, he drew me a picture of me and planted some seeds for me.  He can't recall what kind of seeds they are. It will be a surprise to see what they grow into...

 Hayden had a Mother's Day Breakfast at school on Thursday. The class sang songs about moms and presented us with flowers they planted and plaster hand prints.

His wonderful God Mother,  Aunt Chris, sent home a lovely note that Hayden wrote for me.

Thank you Chris!

 Glenn end all the kids sent me a dozen roses on Thursday. They are all open now and are just beautiful.
Thank you honey! I love you too.

When Dlyan finally got up around noon, he made me eggs in a basket! So yummy! Thank you Dylan.

My momma with all her grand kids except Ryan who missed this photo op.

I would be remiss if I did not take the time to thank my mother and my grandmother who had the biggest influence on the mother I turned out to be. Truly the strongest women I have ever known.  I am so lucky to say that I will be spending time with my mother later today. I feel deeply for those who don't have the option to do so.  My grandma has been gone for a couple of years now. I miss her very much, but I know she is always with me.  She is the only one who could really empathize with me as she had a son with downs syndrome too. 




Now, before I go, one funny little story from last Mother's Day....
Hayden's Sunday school class stood in front of the congregation to tell what they loved most about their mothers. When it was Hayden's turn, he stepped forward to proudly announce that he loved me most when I played with his Woody.  There were some gasps and chuckles. Luckily, Glenn was standing close by to the mike and grabbed it to clarify that his "woody" was the Woody from the Toy Story movies that he likes to play with! Everyone laughed and I was not arrested.

Happy Mother's Day!!!

Sunday Morning with Hayden-- Opening Day

In the Dugout 

Yesterday was opening day of baseball.  I could not go as I had planned to have a garage sale this weekend  without consulting my calendar first.  While I was disappointed to miss it, I did really well on my garage sale. That kinda made up for it.  I really need to get rid of a lot of stuff.

 So as I watched Glenn and the boys pile into the van to participate in the Opening Day Ceremony, I could only reminisce about last years season.  

T-ball with Hayden was interesting to say the least!  He loved the first half hour or so of a game, but after that, it was a challenge to keep him in the game.  Sometimes after running to first base, he would just keep running right on past second and all the way to the concession stand (he loves himself a good Ring Pop)! Or, because first base was by the bleachers, he would run to base and then just come sit on the bleachers with me.  I would tell him he needed to stay on base.  Then he would tell me he was done.

Nice hit!!

  

                   Lucky for him (and us), Liam would be his helper and run the bases with him or instead of him.

SAFE! Yeah!! I made it!!!

Hayden covering his base.

Out fielding

Game over!

Time to hit the showers.

Glenn brought me home a sticky kid just so I would not feel so left out of the festivities. 

Thank you honey.