My Life As a Mother 2009

This year I got to thinking that I am doing a good job of recording my kids' lives in terms of the big stuff - you know the milestones, the celebrations, the pictures of them growing. But someday I want to look back and remember all the "snipets" too - the everyday stuff.

So from now on, at least on every Mother's Day, I will try to record and capture some of the stuff occuring in our household on that weekend. Here goes:

Maisie's love of watercolors.
Daphne's picture of her and I, and her ability to write her name

using lowercase letters - finally!

Maisie's "elections" (collections)...rocks on windowsill, ponies, ponies, ponies...
Not a set up...just the regular messes that I clean up daily...

My new table runner - a Mother's Day/Birthday present to myself.

The night before Mother's Day - Mike and I baking oodles

of treats for all the ladies at church.

Trying to bake too many at a time and having them ooze out all over our oven and setting off the smoke alarm at 11pm? We didn't go to sleep until 12:30pm...

A special something to remember forever:

This job is the hardest I have ever taken on - but obviously the dearest to my heart.