Happy Mother's Day

Today is Mothering Sunday in the UK. Also known as Mother's Day. I was woken by the scufflings of some excited children being organised by their father. A little while after a few discussions of who was going to carry what, they all walked into the bedroom to wish me a very happy Mother's Day. Abigail had made me a card and a cup of tea (I love that she is old enough to be able to do this without fear of hurting herself), Samuel buttered the toast, Aleah helped me drink my orange juice, Dean 'made' me flowers (and gave me a gift card to one of my favourite stores),and Levi smiled and cooed. It was a lovely way to wake up.

We went out for lunch after church with Dean's family, and throughout the day my children expressed their love for me in various ways. I received many kisses and cuddles from all of my beautiful children. What blessing they are!

Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD, the fruit of the womb a reward. Psalm 127:3

Catchin' up

Hey guys!!! It's been a while hasn't it!?! Yep, I've been busy doing STUFF, and other STUFF. I've also had problems with my memory cards and I think that little hands (and maybe not so little) have hidden and or dropped one or two of the memory cards down the floor boards of our front room! How frustrating!! I'm quite sad about it because not only do I have to get a new memory card but I wasn't able to get all the pictures off before the card(s) went missing!!! :(
So, to keep those of you who want to see recent pictures of the the kids here are a few snaps of Levi and Aleah in the the bath, Sam dressed for 'Red Nose Day' at school, Abigail showing how she feels that her class had to go on a trip on 'Red Nose Day' and therefore had to wear their uniforms when everyone else was doing fun things.

Friday Fun

Today there was a book signing at a local bookstore by one of our favourite children's authors, Julia Donaldson. Her most well-known book is 'The Gruffalo'. I decided it would be fun to get our copy of the book signed by her. I picked up the oldest 2 from school and off we all (the little ones as well) went to see if we could meet the author. The bookstore had also advertised that 'the Gruffalo' would be visiting the store as well. There was quite a line waiting by the time we arrived. I wasn't sure about waiting in a LONG line with 4 children, and Levi was needing to be fed as well! But, I decided to go for it. Thankfully, I had arranged for Dean to meet us at the shopping center when he finished his afternoon job. Anyway...just shortly after I started feeding Levi his bottle, back-up (Dean) arrived and we managed to keep everyone calm as we waited for an hour and a half. I am pleased that we did wait, because the illustrator, Axel Scheffler, was signing as well. They were both very formidable and Axel drew a little picture in each book. Sam was quite impressed with the speed of his drawing, and that it looked exactly like the characters in the book.
We were able to have a little photo op with 'the Gruffalo'. Aleah wasn't too sure about this character with ...knobbly knees, and turned-out toes, and a poisonous wart at the end of his nose...As you might be able to see from the photo, she did not want to take her eyes off this guy for one second.