Happy Mother's Day to all my friends who are moms and, of course, to my own Mom! Where will we be next Mother's Day? Either Japan or Australia I think. Maybe I can dress up like a geisha and my sons will bow to me :)
As Mother's Days go, this one did not start out so well for me. We went to the 9:00am service at church and Jackson was refusing to go to Sunday School. Strange. He's usually fairly go-with-the-flow and does not give us a lot of problems, but he's been a bit more challenging lately. Hopefully just a phase. He told me "you're mean" and ripped off his Sunday School nametag in front of his teacher and threw it in the garbage. Not exactly the Hallmark Mother's Day moment we all want. I said, "you're on your own, kiddo" and left. I asked Ted to pick him up after the service. I sat through the service smarting and blinking back tears and thinking, hmmm maybe we should have spanked him once in awhile when he was younger.
Later at home though, things improved. Checking my e-mail, I discovered a funny electronic Mother's Day card from Mitchell. I should have known. Jackson will do all the crafts and cards they assign in school, but Mitchell doesn't have much of a taste for arts and crafts and these things tend not to ever make their way home. They are spinning somewhere in the orbit of the black hole otherwise known as his desk. A computer card is right up his alley. It was cute, had a corny tune, and contained the words "I love you". Just what I needed.
Then, wonder of all wonders, Jackson cleaned his room completely unprompted. He wanted to show me . . . wow! He said, "from now on I'm going to hang up my clothes when I take them off, so my room stays clean". Oh. My. Goodness!! But wait, it gets better. He pulled out his Jigsaw Jones novel (okay so I use the term "novel" loosely) and started reading it this afternoon. About a half-hour later, he came to find me to show me he is now on chapter 4! And announces he's going to read the whole thing all by himself. He's in Gr. 2 and we've been doing the shared reading thing since the beginning of Gr. 1. Most of the time he balks and says "no you read it, mom". I've been waiting for this day. And to think that it happened on Mother's Day!
And now here's a funny Mother's Day video to make you smile (as long as you don't have two sons, that is) . . .
As Mother's Days go, this one did not start out so well for me. We went to the 9:00am service at church and Jackson was refusing to go to Sunday School. Strange. He's usually fairly go-with-the-flow and does not give us a lot of problems, but he's been a bit more challenging lately. Hopefully just a phase. He told me "you're mean" and ripped off his Sunday School nametag in front of his teacher and threw it in the garbage. Not exactly the Hallmark Mother's Day moment we all want. I said, "you're on your own, kiddo" and left. I asked Ted to pick him up after the service. I sat through the service smarting and blinking back tears and thinking, hmmm maybe we should have spanked him once in awhile when he was younger.
Later at home though, things improved. Checking my e-mail, I discovered a funny electronic Mother's Day card from Mitchell. I should have known. Jackson will do all the crafts and cards they assign in school, but Mitchell doesn't have much of a taste for arts and crafts and these things tend not to ever make their way home. They are spinning somewhere in the orbit of the black hole otherwise known as his desk. A computer card is right up his alley. It was cute, had a corny tune, and contained the words "I love you". Just what I needed.
Then, wonder of all wonders, Jackson cleaned his room completely unprompted. He wanted to show me . . . wow! He said, "from now on I'm going to hang up my clothes when I take them off, so my room stays clean". Oh. My. Goodness!! But wait, it gets better. He pulled out his Jigsaw Jones novel (okay so I use the term "novel" loosely) and started reading it this afternoon. About a half-hour later, he came to find me to show me he is now on chapter 4! And announces he's going to read the whole thing all by himself. He's in Gr. 2 and we've been doing the shared reading thing since the beginning of Gr. 1. Most of the time he balks and says "no you read it, mom". I've been waiting for this day. And to think that it happened on Mother's Day!
And now here's a funny Mother's Day video to make you smile (as long as you don't have two sons, that is) . . .
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