Mother's Day started a few days early for me.  On Friday I picked the kids up from school and received their handmade gifts.  I love the handmade gifts!  Reagan made me a picture with her photo on it and Will made me a card with little popsicle stick "coupon" flowers.  I can pull out a popsicle stick and give him a chore to do in honor of Mother's Day! 

Most of the chores are things he already does for his allowance - feed the dogs, clean his room, help sort laundry - but one chore seemed strange.  "Help staple paper."  I don't think I even staple paper at work.  I don't even think we have a stapler at home.  Maybe it's something he wants to do together?  It did make me smile. 

He also presented me with a questionnaire he filled out about his mom.  He was right about my eye color, but some of the other answers puzzled me.  For example "My Mommy's hair is ____________"  he answered "blonde maybe?"  And this one really has us wondering "My Mommy looks pretty when she ____________".  Wilson's answer "puts on her blue shoes and goes to work."  I don't have any blue shoes...  and is it me, or does it sound like I have a less than reputable job in his description?  Chris laughed.  Just wait though because next month he's up for the questionnaire!

Friday night Chris was out of town so I had a special night planned with my kids.  First we made their favorite meal, then we took a walk with the neighbors.  When we put Reagan to bed, Wilson and I pulled out a movie, Ben and Jerry's ice cream, popcorn, and root beer.  It was a nice mom-son date. 

On Mother's Day they took me out to our favorite Italian restaurant in Saginaw.  We went home and spent the day playing.  It was a very busy day (a stray dog showed up and for some reason I can't understand, we operate a catch-love-release program for strays at our house) complete with a bike race between me and the boy.  I loved every minute of it!