Mother's Day

When Micah started going to school, I found out that Mother's Day is celebrated a lot when you have preschoolers. At that age, kids are just so excited to show their moms how much they love them.  I will totally take it and soak it up now while my kids still want to be seen with me!
Because Liam is in both the M-W-F and the T-Th classes at school, I had two teas to go to this year.  I only had the camera for one, and managed to get a picture of me and my almost-four-year-old hanging together at it.  Notice the hand-created tie around his neck?

We had fruit and cheese and mints, all sitting at tables decorated with the kids' handmade treasures made especially for the moms and grandmas.  Included at both teas was a traditional keepsake where your child answers questions about you as a mom.  In the one below, I appear to be infatuated with food and work.  I think the latter is only because Liam asks me to play every morning and every morning I tell him "no because I have to get ready to go to work".  The former? Well, I do enjoy cooking.  On a totally different question, Liam was the only one in his M-W-F class to get his mother's age right.  I don't know whether to be proud that he knows I'm 37 or sad that he doesn't think I'm 14 (or 5!) like the other kids in the class thought their moms were!

Here's the one from the T-Th class.  I'm still interested in cooking, but I'm ten years younger than I was when he answered the questions from the other class.  It must be some weird preschool time warp thing.

 

And on the back of each was my handprint with Liam's on top so I can always remember how little he once was and how holding my hand was a given rather than a groaned-at request.

 

At the end of the M-W-F Mother's Day Tea, they gathered together as a class

and sang a beautiful song about moms.

This morning I was showered with riches beyond deserving. My future now contains a pedicure, my office will have a beautiful family collage, I will get to go to Outback for dinner, and we will have some more money to put towards our adoption.
Micah had made things in school last week for Mother's Day, and he gave me this card

which also had another entertaining profile inside.  This time no age was mentioned - but I'm still interested in cooking.

He made a beautiful magnet for the fridge, which he happened to hang next to a handprint of his from when he was one year old.   Now he's finishing kindergarten.  How time has flown.

I am grateful to be their mom, grateful that God saw to it to give these beautiful boys as treasures to love and raise and nurture and hopefully help mold into good human beings. I am grateful for their dad, because without him my responsibilities as a mother would be infinitely more challenging.  Thanks to all three of my boys for making this Mother's Day so special for this blessed mom.