This Mother’s Day I was peacefully enjoying my French toast in bed when there was a huge crash downstairs in the kitchen and Liberty started crying/screaming.  I couldn’t tell if it was a “my limb is broken and I really need my mom” kind of cry or an “I’m hurt, but mostly scared and don’t need mom all that much” kind of cry.  I opted for the latter so I could enjoy warm food for once, but she kept crying for mom so I went down.  She was balling and covered pretty much from head to toe in powdered sugar.  I had to try really hard to stay and give her a hug instead of laughing and running for my camera.  After a good long hug we were both sufficiently covered in powdered sugar.  She and the witnesses explained that she had been sitting on the table trying to sprinkle her own powdered sugar on her French toast from the container at one end of the table to her plate at the other end of the table.  (Might I just add here that if Mom had been in the kitchen Liberty never would have been on the table OR attempting that long distance feat with the powdered sugar on her own.)  She lost her balance, plummeted head first to the ground, hitting her head on a chair on her way down.  Her plate landed on the floor with a tremendous crash, spreading the love of the powdered sugar ALL over the dinning room floor.   The kitchen also looked like a bomb had gone off because when you let an eleven year old boy cook you breakfast he will cover every inch of your kitchen with mess.  I wish I could say that I got to enjoy my warm food after all, but that was not to be.  All that being said, I will take that mess over the barfing children some of my friends got to take care of on their Mother’s Day. 

Liberty and Levi presented me with these sweet gifts after breakfast.

Notice the expensive packaging she used.

And inside:

Flowers from our yard.  Notice the powdered sugar still in her hair.

Those flowers happen to resemble a heart and so Levi got creative with his card:

If you need a translation it says; “Mom, I (heart) You.  Love love love this cute little card!  Thanks, Levi!

The rest of my Mother’s day went splendidly until my kids came home with “The Paper”.  You know the one.  The fill in the blank questionnaire about Mom that all primary kids come home with on Mother’s day.  What I like best about mom is……., what my mom does best is……., my mom makes me laugh when….I love my mom because…….  When they are little and their primary teachers are helping them fill it out they tend to be pretty cute and hilarious.  But when my older children are left to answer it unaided, it is not so pretty. 

Cade: What I love most about my mom is “she provides the four needs of all living things: food, water, shelter and space.” 
Let’s hear it for warm and fuzzy!

Reagan: My mom makes me laugh when “she says something funny (very rare)” 
I resemble that remark!!!  I can’t help it.  I can be funny around other people but not my kids so much.  It’s sad I know, and even sadder when your kid calls you on it.

The day was saved by French Silk pie and a new set of pots and pans to replace our wedding pots and pans which are finally biting the dust. 

Thanks everyone for a wonderful day! 

You’ve heard about the new movie coming out next year called Superman vs. Batman.  Well here’s a little sneak peek from the boys piano recital last week.

Then, as if those two songs were not enough of a competition for you, here is Reagan playing “The Dancing Spider” and then Cade playing, “The Spider Dance”. 

Interestingly enough, neither boy noticed the similarities in their songs.  Good thing too.  Competition is never good at our house.