Sunday, May 20, 2012
Mitchell's Wisdom
Mitchell announced his favorite friend was Spencer F. "because he always agrees with me!" Well, he's figured some things out real early in life!
Mother's Day 2012
Stephanie and I got our Mother's Day fun to St. George to watch Brian Reagan; hike in Snow Canyon; and relax with no schedule and no children to remind us to make a schedule! It was so much fun to just be sisters again.
Sunday morning Taylor made me breakfast - well, ok, not really. Preston had made waffles on Saturday morning while I was gone so for Mother's Day breakfast I found Taylor carefully laying the leftover waffles form Saturday in the waffle iron to reheat them - a little rubbery but hey! I didn't have to make them! The boys showered me with wonderful homemade gifts - as is tradition. They spent most of the morning before church shut up in their rooms making things like twine necklaces with paper hearts (a little itchy), pictures, and cards. I loved it all!
I did tell Taylor I have figured out why Mother's Day can be kind of difficult (minus all the guilty feelings from realizing I could be doing so much more so much better) - it's the fact that although my children have a tendency to act the same way as any other day - for instance painting in their room and getting blue paint on the carpet - I, as a mother, am not allowed to react negatively to anything. Sometimes, that proves to be rather tough!
All in all, it was a beautiful day!
Sunday morning Taylor made me breakfast - well, ok, not really. Preston had made waffles on Saturday morning while I was gone so for Mother's Day breakfast I found Taylor carefully laying the leftover waffles form Saturday in the waffle iron to reheat them - a little rubbery but hey! I didn't have to make them! The boys showered me with wonderful homemade gifts - as is tradition. They spent most of the morning before church shut up in their rooms making things like twine necklaces with paper hearts (a little itchy), pictures, and cards. I loved it all!
I did tell Taylor I have figured out why Mother's Day can be kind of difficult (minus all the guilty feelings from realizing I could be doing so much more so much better) - it's the fact that although my children have a tendency to act the same way as any other day - for instance painting in their room and getting blue paint on the carpet - I, as a mother, am not allowed to react negatively to anything. Sometimes, that proves to be rather tough!
All in all, it was a beautiful day!
Like Steven
I came home from a soccer game with Mitchell & Parker one day to find Preston (who didn't go to the game because he had Scouts) making cookies. He picked a recipe out of a ward cookbook that I had never used before - pretty much because it called for TWO cups of olive oil - What!? The recipe? 2 cups of olive oil, 4 cups of sugar, 7 cups of flour, six eggs . . . you get the picture. I was trying to remind myself to take a deep breath as I asked him why he didn't wait 15 minutes for me to get home to which he replied, "I just wanted to be like Steven - he makes good things for his family and everyone likes it!" We had just been to their house and he had made snickerdoodles and being only 15 yrs. old, Preston thought that was something to imitate - which it is . . . with the right recipe!
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