Mother's Day Weekend

Teacher's Appreciation Week AND Mother's Day weekend fell together on the same week! This might've happened before in the past, but this is the very first time I've experienced being both a teacher and mother simultaneously. And yes, I do think this is pretty awesome. I stuffed myself with chocolate and other fatty delights this entire week at work and continued to stuff myself this weekend. Good thing I'm married... with kids, so there's really no one to impress. Hah. Let me just say, I am very happy with my Target gift cards, Curry jersey (and come on Warriors, get it together!!!!), and being showered for being a mother.

Thing #1

 Thing #2

See the family resemblance?

Imitating their wonderful role model

We can also look normal (but that's not that fun)

They drive me insane sometimes, but I sure love my Thing 1 and Thing 2! I think one of the best decisions I made nearly a week ago was deciding to not work during the summer and pull the kids out of school so we can spend summer together. I turned off my alarm Monday morning and decided that summer is for having fun and spending quality time with my rascals. I also have a number of side "projects" to take care of and wanted to devote my summer to doing all this as well. So, I told the principal that I decided to not work this summer and was going to pull both kids out of summer school so we can enjoy family time. It's only fair, right? They've been at school for nearly 8 hours each day for nine months this past year! Plus, Thing 1 made it pretty clear that he wanted to have fun over the summer and not go to school. For an almost 4 year old, Thing 1 is pretty persuasive young man. Although I still have three weeks of school left (two academic weeks), my mind is already on outings to the beach, checking out the coolest parks in the South Bay, mini trips, Happy Hollow (not my idea), and whatever fun we can think up. Sorry, but this mother/teacher has been hit with summeritis! 

In the words of Lucas, "we did a lot of things this weekend!". You're right, son, we did.

 Friday family movie night in Mommy & Daddy's bed

 Working on making Mother's Day cards

 Checking out a new park

... with an awesome slide!

 Having ChikFilA with some friends

 Eating with cousins

 ... and celebrating Mother's Day with family!

Then ending the night with a wrestling match

All that was just Saturday. I'm tired just thinking about all the places we've traveled to in one day. One of these weekends, we'll have a quiet weekend at home. So far, it's happened maybe once or twice this year. After church, we went to Billy's Boston Chowder House in downtown Los Gatos and had dessert at Icing on the Cake. Yum and yum!

 Celebrating our family Mother's Day

 My loves

 He loves me too!

When I was doing my hair this morning, Lucas walked by and said my hair was cute. Later on, he said he liked me shirt. I told him I liked his clothes too (probably because I buy all his clothes). I don't know where he learned all this from, but I like it!

I had to count (starting to lose track), but this is my third Mother's Day. My FB feed has sorta been flooded with these "Mother's Day isn't for everyone" articles. Although I don't like to be a Debbie Downer, I can relate to one part of it - not being able to celebrate Mother's Day with your mother because she's not here. It's very unfortunate that I never had a chance to celebrate Mother's Day with my Mom since becoming a Mom. Every time I look at my rascals and see how much they've grown, how articulate they've become, and how their personalities are so different, I'm saddened that my Mom is not here to witness this with me. Although she has never admitted it, we all know that my brother was her favorite. Now I kind of see why, there is something special about a mother/son relationship - I am totally smitten with Lucas and to me, he's perfect. But at the same time, I love the girl time and snuggles I have with Char (she's perfect in her own way, too). Anyway, it just sucks. As time goes by, I don't think about it as much and have just accepted it as a way of life now.

It's Sunday night. I have two more Mondays of waking up at 6:30 and then I'm donezo! I can't wait till summer's here!