Mother’s day–more stuff to win

AT 5 minutes for Mom, you can enter to win a Mother’s day IPod. Well, who wouldn’t like that? I ask you.

Speaking of Mother’s day, they just had some Mother’s day ad on the radio, and I casually mentioned to my kids, “Mother’s day is in a week and a half. Buy your presents early!” And their responses were:

“Presents for Grandpa,” that was John. It was recently Grandpa’s birthday, and we gave him a really cool blow up skee-ball game. I’m guessing John was very impressed by that giftl

“I don’t have to buy a present, I’ll make one,” from my little craft/recycle girl, Jenna, who, on Cole’s birthday, gave him one of her stuffed animals that she was tired of.

And Cole and Natalie got into a conversation about how it’s unfair that Mothers and Fathers have a special day and there is no “Kid’s Day”. I must have let some snide comment slip out about how maybe they would be happier to not have a mother, and they picked up on that and debated about how long Mom will live and that when I’m gone they won’t have to buy me presents anymore. Although, really, they don’t buy me presents now, so I guess the only difference would be that they would actually have to WORK.

Oh yes, the joy that is Mother’s day. Bring it on.

I actually will be teaching the lesson in Relief Society on Mother’s day, and the RS president mentioned to me that we might be having all the moms come in to enjoy the lesson, so that the only one who would have to be working would be….well, me. But I don’t think that would work. What with staffing the primary and all, and isn’t that when the kids make all those sweet card that hopefully contain chocolate? So, I get to teach a lesson on SERVICE to the Queens of service–the Moms. I’m trying to brainstorm and think of a way to make it really fun, like my last lesson, but without it being so much work. And prizes. I need some cool prizes. Any ideas?

Oh, and speaking of cool moms (were we speaking of cool mom? hmmmm), I’m picking up my good friend Robin tonight, and tomorrow and Friday we are going to Women’s conference at BYU. My kids are so excited to have Robin come (although they are sad that her kids are not coming with her), and Cole has even cleaned his room and is prepared to sleep in the basement. When we were talking about having Robin come, one of the girls said, “That means Robin will clean out our pantry and we get to go to the Spaghetti factory for dinner!” I don’t think she’ll have time to clean our pantry–that’s an all day affair–but we’ll try to work in a trip to the Spaghetti factory.

I haven’t studied the list of classes yet, but I’m really hoping that there’s one on How to deal kindly with your teenager even when he forgets to hand in his assigments and you receive a deficiency notice in the mail or Potty training without the yelling, and no guilt. I could also use one on Just because you have dandelions in your grass that does not make you white trash, or the one on Making dinner when you really don’t feel like it—ever. And I was looking for the class titled How to appreciate your husband for the things he does, and not just grumbling silently when you look at his large pile of unfolded laundry, but I didn’t see that one in the schedule, either. But I’m sure I will find many classes that will deal with just the things I need to hear so that I can be a more patient and loving mother and wife. And I really appreciate that Ryan is going to work from home those two days so I don’t have to find and arrange for child care for my little ones. Hopefully we’ll have nice weather, be uplifted and have a great experience. And if you are there, too, and happen to see someone that looks like me but her name tag says “Jess”, say hi anyway.