Mother's Day Past

I shared this story with my friend, Life Adapted and thought I would share it here. I have a couple more that I will post too.

Every year as a family we go camping for Mother's Day. Many years ago I got a promotion to supervisor at an agency that I had worked at for 7 years. I had decided that year that I wanted to get my mother something really big, expensive and extravagant for Mother's Day. It was my 1st year of being a mother and her first year of being a grandmother and I wanted to go all out. I told her to think of something she wanted, but would never splurge on for herself. After a few days she came to me with excitement and said that she had figured out what she wanted. My mother wanted a porta-potty that she could have in the tent with her for camping..... A porta-potty! I took her to G*nder M*untain and bought her a porta-potty and she was so thrilled... smiling the whole time like a kid at Toys R Us.

Since then some of her mother's day gifts have included tarps, fire pit grills and wader boots. I tease her that she was so kind during all of those years when I was giving her sweet little cards and flowers when all she wanted was a can of worms and a rod to drown 'em with!

Spring Pictures

Paragraph by Jordan

My grandma had to move in with us. The reason why I like her here is because we can always see her with out her having to come over. We can just go into her room and there she is. She is always there for me even when I do bad stuff. I really appreciate when she sticks up for me. Now that she is here I need to listen to my mom so that we don't get her upset. Because when my mom gets upset my grandma gets upset and every body gets stressed out. So that's what I can do to help with the stress in the house.

Happy Birthday

Today is preschool's 5th birthday. Jackson is the sweetest little guy who is such a lap-baby. He is huggable and melts right into you when cuddling. He is currently in preschool here at MHS and is looking forward to using his Pre-Kindergarten books that have arrived in the mail for next year. He has told us that he plans to eat the entire box of ice cream this afternoon...

Happy birthday, Kid!

Roy G Biv

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Community Helpers

Today we worked at a local food bank that is housed at the church that we attend. The children really love unpacking boxes from the Food Mover's truck and then stocking the shelves in the food bank. Jeffrey has learned to work the entire program and can check people in, pack orders and often helps families with carrying their food to their car. The other 3 love packing orders and stocking shelves. The shelves are marked with a small ticket that list family size and how much of a particular item that the family can have. The lady who runs the program has it so organized that even my pre-schooler and first grader can pack orders if they are told how many people are in the family. It gives the children so much joy to work at the food bank. They grin so hard that it just makes everyone that comes in smile right along with them.

Story Starters

Question: If you were to give your mother a day with no housework, what things would you do to help out?

Answer by Jordan: If there was no work for one day I would help with the baby and help with my brothers with their home work and school work. If there were school that day I would go to school and get the work I had to get done that day. I would probably get my homework done and then play for the rest of the day. It would be fun and you should always do some work even if you don’t want to do it.

Question: Garber's kites were not only used for target practice; they were also used to carry important papers from ship to aircraft. In what other ways might a kite be used as a tool rather than a toy?

Answer by Jeffrey: Garber kites can also be a warning sign to airplanes. They can let pilots know they are in a restricted area. It can let people know that they are near a certain area. It could be used as an explosive device. You could probably use a kite for the armed forces. You could probably attach a camera to it. It could take pictures from the kite. They could camouflage it to blend in with its surroundings. So the Garber Kite could be used for the army. I think you could put some together to make a bigger kite to send letters to and from the planes in the sky. You could have kite shows. You could do all kinds of things with kites. Kites are the coolest things ever made.