What's Important....

I attended a Mother's Day tea at my daughter's pre-school where I was presented with a cute little card sporting flowers made from her footprints, a paper flower with her picture in the middle and a potted flower.



Noah stumbled off the bus today toting a top secret bag that he wanted me to help him carry, wanted me to know to be careful because it was breakable but didn't want me to know what was in it until Sunday. Then, he decided I should open the card. I told him I would just wait until Sunday and he insisted I open it right away.

Inside, was a list of things about "My Mother" and he filled in the blanks with words to describe me and things about me. Here is the content of Noah's card (with my comments in red):

Five Words to Describe My Mother are:

1. funny (Yeah! I am so glad he thinks I am funny. I thought only I thought I was funny.)

2.blue eyes (at least he knows what color eyes I have now. I wrote a whole post a couple of years ago about how he thought I had brown eyes)

3.Nice (Well, okay- "stinkin' awesome" would have been better, but I am glad to know he thinks I am a nice person)
4. Dyed red hair (ummm.... welll..... d'oh!)

5.Vanilla ice cream hater (it's true- and it's funny that he made note of it)

Four Things My Mom Does Best are:

1. makes mac and cheese (I fear that his teacher thinks I whip up boxes of Kraft with great frequency. The truth is, I make homemade macaroni and cheese that Noah LOVES. Honestly, I do.)

2.play Zumba (okay- he's reaching here. I only just started Zumba. Seriously, I've only been to the class twice. Perhaps he is talking about Zumba on the Wii since he said "play Zumba" but I only ever end up getting mad at the Zumba instructor on the Wii and wishing fat rolls and awkward NON-Latin hips on her.)

3.helping with homework (I am so glad he still thinks I am good at it. The reality is I jump on Facebook a lot for help with my second grader's homework. It's HARD, y'all! I have a bachelor's degree and I have trouble with his homework. I'm going to need a PhD to get him through 8th grade and after that, he is on his own)

4. helping with Zoe (Well, "practice makes perfect" and I get A LOT of practice "helping with Zoe".)

Two of My Mom's Favorite Things to Do are:

1.read books

2. take Zoe and I places

(I will forgive him the "dyed red hair" comment for not writing "take a nap", "yell" or "Facebook/computer" here.)

My Mom Really Likes it When:

Zoe and I are nice to each other. (This one is spot on.)

Two Things I Want to Tell My Mom are:

1. Get me some more Legos!

2.Get me some more Legos! (Where's the "I love you"? "Happy Mother's Day"? Yeah... show me some love, Dude and you might get some more Legos!)

Happy Mother's Day everyone!