I love Mother's Day!!

I think I have the sweetest boys around...now I know you all would like to argue with me about that but since it's my blog, I can say that ;). They were so cute...yesterday morning I was getting ready for church and I could see them sneaking around and whispering and just as we were ready to leave they presented me with their treasures. When I unwrapped my gift I had to laugh....a month or two ago I was shopping with the boys and as we walked past a jewellery store we stopped and looked at this collection of beautiful crystal jewellery and figurines. I told them how I beautiful I thought it was and how that would be a wonderful Mother's Day gift. Well...a good thing to remember from now on is that kids really do listen and take what we Mommy's say very much to heart. When Trev took them shopping they were very determined in what they wanted to get me...their was no changing their mind :). So I received a beautiful crystal necklace for Mother's day. They were soooo thrilled to give it to me. Sweet boys.

Then of course they each presented me with their hand-made mother's day card they had each made at school. And you know what? Those cards are just as precious to me as any piece of jewellery they could have ever given me. I have looked at those cards several times today and they put tears in my eyes. You know...it won't be very many years of my life where I'll receive 3 of those sweet cards at one time. Seth is already 9 years old...in just a few short years he's going to be "too cool" to make his mom a Mother's Day card. And his was soooo cute....it was a little book with about 5 pages of things that are special about his mom. I realize more and more that I just have to treasure these years...they are going to speed by much too fast.

So I loved my Mother's Day. My boys made me feel like a queen. I hope you all had a wonderful day full of warm and squishy feelings too!

My new dishes

My dear friend Maddy asked to see the new dishes I was talking about so here's a picture. They're a really rich cream colour with a "crackle"-like finish. the dark colour is a dark chocolate brown. They're a really close match to our table which I don't really like but I'm hoping that in the near future we'll be able to buy a new dinette set and I'm hoping to find something in a dark finish. Keeping my fingers crossed.



I only bought 8 place settings and I want to do an additional setting in another colour. I bought a set of red dinnerplates....and I'm not too sure about it. Might be a little too bright and flashy for me ;). What I'd really like is some dark chocolate brown dishes but I haven't seen any anywhere. If anyone knows where I could find some....PLEASE let me know! In the meantime, I would love all of your opinions on the red set...just leave it in the comments. Tell me what you think :).

My Sentimental Son

I've had the same dinnerware set since we got married...almost 12 years ago. I've always loved my dishes but they're definitely showing wear and tear. It's stoneware so almost every piece is chipped and it's starting to look pretty bad. So I've been looking around for a new set and found one I really liked but held off on buying it. Well, this week it came on sale so I just had to go and get it...just trying to be thrifty ya know ;). After a couple of days of having the boxes sitting on the kitchen floor and the boys bugging me to take out the dishes I finally did it tonight. I took all of the old stuff out of my cupboards and set it on the table and my beautiful new dishes took their place. After I was done, I looked at my old dishes on the table and thought "they're actually not that bad...do I really want to get rid of my old dinnerware?". Seth was with me in the kitchen and he's looking at the dishes too and says "are we really getting rid of them....I grew up with those dishes". That made me smile. What 9 year old boy gets sad over dishes?? :) Then I told him they were actually a wedding gift...Daddy and I got them from Grandma and Grandpa and Seth says "my Grandma and Grandpa?!" It was then I realized that I was kind of attached to these dishes as well and I told him I felt really bad getting rid of them when they were a wedding gift from my parents. Well!! Then Seth says to me "why don't you keep one of each to remember". Of course!! Why on earth had I not thought of that?!? After he said it, it seemed obvious that I would keep one place setting as a keepsake. Honestly, if he hadn't suggested it I probably would not have thought of it and I would have kicked myself a thousand times later on. My sweet sentimental Seth...what would I do without him? So now I have one whole place setting set aside and I will have no regrets giving away my old dinner set. Thank you Seth!!

Little stinker!

So my little Jude turned 10 months this weekend and with this milestone came the obligatory unrolling of the toiletpaper roll. Now that he's caught on to the crawling thing he definitely keeps me hopping. He is such a busy boy...I don't remember the other 3 keeping me this busy. Ha ha....yeah right!! I think those years were so wild that they're just a blur in my mind. :)


And just look how very proud of himself he is. Mommy's taking a picture so this must be really cute, right? He's such a funny little guy...he brings a lot of laughter into my life. I love him to bits!!




However, his new ablity to get around and stand up everywhere has unfortunately led to 2 accidents in the past 2 days. Yesterday he stood up in Samuel's closet, reached for the musical aquarium (which is really quite heavy) and it fell and smacked him in the face. He cried so hard and ended up with his very first bloody nose :(. Then this evening, I put him in his crib... which is the one place I know he'll be safe and not get in trouble. So he's standing in there shaking his head back and forth as hard as he can, laughing and being his kooky little self when he slips and cracks the top of his mouth on the crib rail. OH...MY...WORD!! Did it ever bleed!! I held him against my shoulder for awhile and when I pulled back to look at him, blood was pouring out of his mouth. It was horrible. It just kept bleeding for about 15 minutes. I felt so sorry for him. The other 3 boys were all in the bathroom with us trying to help out in any way they could. Ahh...it's a tough stage...sooo busy and absolutely no understanding yet. I hope he's a quick learner ;). Anyway...that was my Jude's adventure of the day...hopefully tomorrow will be an injury-free day. Good night!