Mommy and Me...Thursday!

I am going to continue to use some old posts from our MOPS blog until we get more into a routine with our new blog.

Many of you are reading these for the very first time, some of you may have read them years ago and it seems familiar and then there is me (and possibly Wendy, Joy, Sarah, Hannah and other ladies I may feature) who are reading things like tonight's post and it causes so many emotions to surface because you wrote it and it's about you or your family.

I cannot tell my mom friends (especially of infants and soon to be moms) enough to CHERISH every single moment because pretty soon your little baby girl goes from being in your arms to Kindergarten (doing adorable things below) to in only a few weeks entering 5th grade!! I refuse to think past this year!

Pay SPECIAL attention to the very last quote in this post.




Mommy and Me...Thursday!

The past two weeks Brenna and Ethan have been playing school. Not one or two days a week, but every day! As soon as Brenna comes home from school, it's time for "school".

Last week she called for me to come into her room, she wanted to show me something. I go in to see a few of her stuffed animals lined up on her bed at their "desks" with matching folders (pictured above) in front of them. Their "folders," were handmade by Brenna. She took the time to take 5 sheets of paper and make each the same. (Those of you that have children in Kindergarten or First Grade will appreciate this.)

Miss Brenna also made a weather chart, school days chart, counting chart, and has the alphabet hung in her room for her students. Everyday she stands in front of these charts and teaches from them. The weather has to be changed to the current weather, the school day number has to be correct, and she better be able to find her pointer! (Sometimes the pointer is in Mr. Ethan's class room across the hall. Yes! Mr. Ethan has started teaching his own class . - Brenna also made charts for his room.)

It amazes me to see my children doing this. It truly does. A few days of "classes" later, Brenna asked me to make her some "tests" 5-1 = __, 5+3=___, etc. I had to make 5 the same. A light bulb went off while I was doing this. I looked at my husband and said, "I use to do this. I use to do this! She is being like me! I had tests, folders, and papers! I was the teacher!!"

Last night Brenna asked me to help her make an "answer book." I had been in the kitchen all day long making dinner, and canning salsa. I really did not want to do anything else, but plop on the couch. However, I remembered what I wrote in the MOPS newsletter, "take time to make those moments." I then remembered  the words I said to my husband only 4 days ago "I use to do this!"
 

Brenna and I sat down and made her "answer book." The joy in her face coming straight from her heart;the joy I felt in helping her; the two of us bonding over something we shared in two different generations, now that is a mommy moment if ever there was one! Placed in my mind's memory box and I hope she placed it in hers!

"Sometimes you see yourself in your child and you know what, that is pretty cool!"

~JL Genovese

"While we try to teach our children all about life,Our children teach us what life is all about." ~Angela Schwindt

"If you haven't time to respond to a tug at your pants leg, your schedule is too crowded." ~Robert Brault