"Little Women" Family: Mother's Day

Tuesday, June 03, 2014

Mother's Day

On Saturday night, I took my Mom out to our favorite restaurant to celebrate Mother's Day-- Olive Garden. We got a stuffed mushroom appetizer that was amazing!! Actually everything was amazing!!

I also finished preparing my lesson for Sunday, with some helpers. Calyssa was helping me cut. It was so cute! Sariah helped me make a sign. She drew an amazing flower for me!!

Grant spoiled us all and made us a very special breakfast! It was very delicious!!

I absolutely love this picture of my girls all in a row, in age order, waiting to bring me gifts!! It makes me feel very blessed!

Spoiling Mommy...

All my girls gave me sweet letters or treats... here are a couple of them...

Sariah wrote me a very sweet letter, "Dear Mommy, I love you so much. Thank you for all that you do for me. I'm so glad that you are my Mom. You help me with small stuff that I don't even notice half of the time, like dealing with a few things in my chores, to big things that are impossible to miss. I am so grateful for everything that you do for me! I love you so so much! Love, Sariah"

And a flower from Karina- "I love Mom because... You help me read... You help me... You drive me to school... You care for me... You cook for me... She does my hair."

These types of letters are seriously my most favorite gift to get from my kids!! LOVE! There were also chocolate kisses on the bottom... chocolate never hurts. LOL! :)

This is the cupcake that Janiel Deboer made for Relief Society, to go along with my lesson on "Forget Me Nots". I shared a story Janiel found about a lady who made cupcakes for her Stake the night this talk was given. She was a professional cupcake decorator and when she brought these cupcakes a lady complained about how she was expecting something much more fancy. Then the talk was given and when everyone came back to see the cupcakes, they were so perfect with just a simple little blue forget me not flower on them. Such a sweet story! These cupcakes were perfect!

We found these cute little grow kits online for super cheap and that is kind of how I started the idea for this lesson, using my favorite talk of all time!

Grant made a yummy dinner!

We stopped by to see my Mom and Dad. Their flowers looked gorgeous!!

It was a very wonderful Mothers Day!!

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My Favorite Part of The Book of Mormon

3 Nephi 17:21-24

"21 And when (Jesus) had said these words, he wept, and the multitude bare record of it, and he took their little children, one by one, and blessed them, and prayed unto the Father for them.

22 And when he had done this he wept again;

23 And he spake unto the multitude, and said unto them: Behold your little ones.

24 And as they looked to behold they cast their eyes towards heaven, and they saw the heavens open, and they saw angels descending out of heaven as it were in the midst of fire; and they came down and encircled those little ones about, and they were encircled about with fire; and the angels did minister unto them."

http://scriptures.lds.org/en/3_ne/17

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Our homeschool program!!

My style of homeschooling is "public school at home." We began homeschooling on our own, the 1st year. Then we were enrolled in the Washington Virtual Academy (WAVA) for 3 years. Now we are enrolled in ORLA. Our girls are taking several classes at an Elementary School that is no longer used for a typical Elementary School. Instead 450 homeschooling students (K-12) take classes there with certified teachers (you choose which ones and how many) but you do have to be at the school with them until they are 12 (in another room with toys for the younger kids) or sign them out to a friend. Then you fill in the rest at home. For example, my girls take Music, Art, P.E., and Science at the school 2 days a week and then I teach them Math, Language, and History at home, on the other 3 days. The school also pays for an additional $300 a year of curriculum (like the Math, Lang, Hist.) We do have to keep up with a certain number of hours per week. We also have a "home room teacher" that helps us with everything, like deciding what extra things to do at home and making sure we don't miss anything. We are really enjoying this program-- it truly is the best of both worlds! If you have any questions, email me. :)