It's Been Awhile...

We have been busy with the end of the school year activities and Mother's Day, leaving me little time to blog. Fortunately, that has given me alot of stories to tell and pictures to share. Hopefully, this week I'll have time to catch up.

Last week was the Mother's Teas at the preschool...Will's on Tuesday and Jack's on Thursday. The Tea for the toddler class is always so cute. The poor teachers work themselves to death to make it special and the children have no idea what is going on. They are just happy to have Mommy come to their class. This is Will's teacher's first year to teach at his school, and her luncheon food was by far the best I have had in all my years of attending the Mother's Teas. Usually, the teachers just make snack type food, but Mrs. April made a wonderful spinach salad with craisins, almonds and feta cheese tossed with a delicious balsamic vinaigrette dressing, chicken salad croissant sandwiches, sweet tea and madelines and brownies for dessert. It was delicious! Will gave me his hand print mounted on canvas as my gift. Is there anything sweeter than chubby baby/toddler fingers? Years from now when he has the hands of a man, I'll look back on that chubby little hand print and wonder where in the world those years went. I know because I already get glimpses of time passing too quickly with Jack.

This is the one picture I got of Will because he got mad that I wouldn't let him drink my full glass of sweet tea by himself and went into complete grumpy two year old mode. So he entertained himself the rest of the tea by taking pictures with my camera. Very interesting to see pictures from a two year old perspective.


Jack's tea was so special. Once again, his teachers are saints....they had the children make all of the decorations for the party (tablecloths, centerpieces, corsages) and prepare all of the food. Jack was in charge of washing the strawberries for the fruit tray and adding the broccoli to the Pampered Chef Veggie Pizza. Other children helped bake a huge plate of cookies.

The Shoe centerpiece

Along the front wall, "Mom and Me" and "You're Special" pictures were hanging that were so precious.


The mommies were seated at the table of their child's shoe centerpiece when the children came in to sing us a song. Then we all ate our lunch together. Oh, they were so proud. Proud that they were able to do all the planning and preparation for us by themselves. Jack said they had been working very hard all week to get everything ready and he was just exhausted!

Oh, I was so proud! And will remember that Mother's Tea for the rest of my days!