I hope everyone had an awesome Mother's Day! Ours was a very laid back kinda day...church, brunch, and swimming followed by delicious leftovers from my hubby's superb dinner the night before! Can't beat that!
Mother's Day actually started a couple days earlier around here...on Thursday, all 3 kiddos to The Holland Five, had special mother's day events planned at their schools so I was fed AND pampered like never before! Very, very fun!
The morning started off with a Mother's Day Tea party in Sam's class...Sam sat with me for a couple minutes, then with goldfish crackers in hand, ran off to play with his friends.
Sweet & yummy!
After lunch at the elementary school, Annie and the 2nd grade class, were able to decorate their very own mother's day cake to bring home for the small cost of $6 AND HEB donated $1 back per cake to the school. They furnished the aprons, hats, cakes, frosting, decorations & supplies...and they cleaned up the mess!
What a fun project!
THE FINISHED PROJECT!!! It was yummy too & gone very quickly!
My afternoon was topped off with a trip to the Kindergarten Day Spa...
The daddies provided the chilled bottled water, all we had to do was bring our makeup, nail polish, and hairbrush...our very own kindergarteners did the pampering! To see Jack in this fashion was a HOOT!!! He was sooooo sweet to me, offered me something to drink, led me by the hand to the massage chair, then made me OH SO BEAUTIFUL!! Such a unique experience that will probably NEVER happen again with me & Jack, so I treasured every moment!!
Really, really fun & sweet!
Don't I look FAB-u-LOUS?!? I didn't touch a thing as he did it all! And even took pictures!
Then presented me with my very own paper flower! I wish you could really see my really, really rosy cheeks, one eyelid with pink shadow, and pink lipstick ALL around the perimeter of my lips...with the low lighting & soft music, it just wasn't possible!! I don't wear much makeup and what I do wear are soft colors, so I guess that made me pretty "safe"! But the teachers thought of EVERYTHING and had comment cards for us to fill out about OUR stylist and a sticker to wear out the door that said "I Just Came From The Kindergarten Day Spa" as a disclaimer if we were to be going anywhere afterwards.
So cute!
On Sunday, I was given many special things, but what I look forward to the most, are the new children's books they pick out for me every year, with their handprint and a note written inside. Wes started this when Annie was born, and I've told them all, if you can't do anything else for Mother's Day, they MUST continue with this tradition! They love pulling out books from MY library to measure their handprint against their younger ones and reading what they told Daddy to write. What's even better, is now they are getting to start writing their own messages...LOVE, LOVE those!
Not sure why the pictures are sideways...just go with it!
Annie's handprint almost filling up the page now! (sniff, sniff)
Sam's reference to me as "Mama Bear" which he calls me every night at bedtime...
And Jack's debut to writing his own for the first time...at least most of it. I think he may have had some help with the spelling though...
each one, EACH YEAR, ABSOLUTELY PRICELESS!!
Hoping you're still beaming in the afterglow of love from your special "babies"!
Any special, unique treasure that you'd like to share??
