I absolutely LOVE being a mom. No doubt about it, it's the best job for me! One of my favorite parts about being a mom is making happy memories for my kids. I hope this weekend was full of those happy memory-making moments for Amanda. Today was my first baby's 15th Birthday!!!
The social event of the season began last night with a party/sleep-over for Amanda and 4 of her friends.
By 6pm, the decorations were in place...
The table was set for dinner and snacks...
...and the guests had arrived!
There was cake...
...and some of it actually got IN her stomach...
and there was entertainment
Then the festivities continued with the family-portion of the BIG event...
Amanda got her first "grown-up" perfume (Vera Wang's 'Princess') from Grandma, a great make-up kit with a beautiful case from Uncle Marc and Aunt Debra, money and gift cards from Auntie Deb, Uncle Steve, Chelsea, Shane and Brea, a cell-phone decorating kit from Auntie and Uncle Charlie, AND... within a box, inside a box, in another box... HER VERY FIRST CELL PHONE!!!!!!!!!!
I started this weekend with the feeling that my bucket of emotions/spiritual reservoirs, etc. was getting pretty low. Lots of dippers in my bucket and not a lot of reserves for some reason.
Just in the nick of time...VOILA!!! General Conference weekend. Two whole days...four two-hour sessions of all the spirit-building, inspiration growing, bucket-filling reserves I could ask for! Best of all, I got to enjoy the experience with my family. It was great!!!
I was emailing my sister (Caline) the other day, and mentioned how grateful I was that I had finished college and was done with school. That's true for SO many reasons, but partly because I do so much "home-work-help" that I feel as if I'm back in school myself.
The math homework usually gives me a head ache. I have an easier time with spelling, English, Spanish, and Social Studies. Occasionally, I am called upon to help with BIG projects like the one Jackie just completed. In those cases, I sit in amazement at the talent and creativity of my children. The last one of these I helped with was Amanda's pyramid made entirely of sugar cubes. *That was fun since we painted them gold before gluing them together.*
Here's what Jackie came up with as a representation of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon in Mesopotamia! I now know more about Mesopotamia than I ever learned in college...go figure!
