Mother's Day 2016

Mother's Day was extra special this year because with the girls in school now, events were planned to be involved with.  Both girls classrooms hosted a 'Marigold's with Mom' activity so I took the day off and spent some time at their school.  It was nice having special time with each of the girls, and even nicer seeing the things they wrote about me.  It felt like a Mom WIN reading their perspective and knowing they don't see 'hurry up' or 'get on task' as something I like to say, or 'the spa' as something I really love, or 'watching a movie' as something I'd do if I had time.  Based on their notes, I'm pretty sure they know I love them!  Since I had taken the day off on Friday Claire-Bear and I had a few hours at home alone so we made some play dough and read some books.  It was nice having some quiet time together.  On Mother's Day we all spent some time outside cleaning the garage which felt so productive and made me really happy!  Then we headed to the Cactus Grill for dinner with Grammie, Pa, MJ, Neil and Logan.  The margarita's were delicious!

I recently decided to help with Ministry Shares at our church.  The girls helped me decorate 118 envelopes for our 'Wall of Money' project.  Although I'm fairly certain they don't really understand why we are doing this, they sure were excited to help decorate envelopes!

Before

Two weekends ago Randy and I took a road trip to New Rochelle to visit Iona College and have dinner with Devin at a benefit for his golf team.  It was wonderful to see the College, visit with Devin, and of course have some grown-up time.  We met up with the McCarthy's afterward for drinks and Salsa dancing - except we just watched.  That was really fun too though!

After

 

The girls had an extra snow day a few weeks back so Mom took the day off and we headed to the mall so they could have their hair cut.  They both wanted shorts cuts and they turned out great!  We haven't traditionally done much clothes shopping so when I took the girls to the shoe store afterward to pick out something new they were both super excited!

Some random pics:

Stella playing "school", which she's taking a liking too.  She loves school, and she loves to read.  She's doing such a great job learning too!  Claire playing with kinetic sand.  She's always drawn to the dirt, mud, and sand.  In fact, last night at the playground she made 'sand angels'!

We recently bought a new Casper mattress and the girls really like it!  We ended up having to tell them they need to sleep in their own room because there wasn't room for us!

We are so happy to be able to get outdoors and enjoy the sunshine.  This year the girls are big enough and strong enough to ride their bikes to the playground.  What fun!