Happy Mother’s Day

by guera in Motherhood on 11 May, 2008

My Mother’s Day started with a serenade from Guerita.

I woke at 6am to find her sitting in bed next to me singing “You are my Sunshine”, a song she’d learnt at school. It was so sweet and she was so heartfelt about it. It ranks right up there as one of the best ways to wake up. A little bit later than 6am would have been quite nice, but oh well. A sleep in was never going to be on the cards since Rocky was away for work and not due back till 9am this morning.

As well as the song, I received a number of beautiful pieces of artwork

and this one made at school

It says “Happy Mother’s Day! I give you this and much love. I love you.”

I had to laugh though because apparently they were told to cut out a picture from a magazine of something they would give us as a gift and stick the picture in the card. Guerita chose a jar of wrinkle cream to stick in my card! Do you think she’s trying to tell me something??

As well as the card, the school made a CD of the kids singing a few songs, including my morning’s serenade and a few songs in Spanish. It was pretty impressive! It reminded of when I was in primary school and our school choir made a recording (for a fundraiser, I think). From memory one of the songs we sang was Feeling Groovy and it was recorded on 45s!!

Perhaps I do need that wrinkle cream after all.

After we collected Rocky from the airport we went straight out for breakfast and then spent the rest of the day lazing round playing Junior Scrabble and splashing in the paddle pool.

Of course, we couldn’t forget the Grandma’s but had to call them the night before because of the time difference. I’ve never really gone for the purchased Mother’s Day present, either to give or receive. I’d rather I or the kids produce a craft or specially made card and given our distance from the Grandmas, we opted for a digital greeting. The obvious choice for me was a photo gift so I made these up in Photoshop for my Mum and Mother in Law. We’ll print them for them if they want, or they can just enjoy them on the computer. A new screensaver perhaps?