Saturday, May 16, 2009

Mother's Day Weekend

I had a great mother's day weekend! My choir sang our final concert series of the season with the SA symphony... ending with a bang (literally-- some intense Russian music). I love the challenge and practice I get with Mastersingers.

Then Sunday was awesome, of course, because I have a wonderful family that I'm so grateful for! Ben and the kids are great at making meals, and gift-giving... but I love how Mother's day makes me so in-love with my kids, and grateful that I get to be their mom.

With Abby in school, she brings home a lot of fun projects to share with us. For mother's day, she made me a big card and dyed paper for making a flower bouquet (the one to the left). On her card, she filled in questions about me, and drew a nice picture of me (which later, she wanted to add "dots" on the face for my freckles...I told her "no, that's okay, I like it the way it is," and took it away). According to Abby, my job is to take care of her, my favorite color is brown, my favorite food is hot dogs, my favorite thing to do is play barbies. I think she started answering them in first person. I loved it!

This year was especially great because we got to share mother's day with Ben's mom. We loved having her here! She's been sick for a while, so it was great to get her here and have the girls spend time with her. We got to take a quick trip to the beach and enjoy the warm water and sand (her favorite!) We'll blog more about the trip later. But thanks for coming out, Linda!

Megan and her boy, Tanner, came too, and those cousins loved playing together. They all have different shades of red and it was so cute to see them together.

SO it was a fun, eventful weekend. Hope you mom's enjoyed your special day!

4 comments:

Ash said...

Happy Mothers Day. I hope Bens Mom is doing okay. I didn't know she was sick! We REALLY want to come down to San Antonio. We planned on coming this month but Isaac wanted to go to Houston to see my Mom and Dad for his birthday/labor day. We were hoping he'd choose San Antonio...he didn't. We'll make it down sometime this summer though!

Linda said...
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Linda said...

It was so fun to be at your house and spend Mother's day with you, Ben and the girls. I try not to think about Abby and Livie because it makes me sad. I miss all the snuggling and the cute things they say.

I think you are just the perfect daughter-in-law! My only complaint is that you put a picture of me on your blog in my monkey pajamas.

Thanks for a great trip. The beach was awesome!rousnum

Linda said...

Okay...very weird. Somehow the verification word I typed in is in my comment. I wonder if it will do it again?