mothers

Real Mothers know that a child's growth Is not measured by height or years or grade...

It is marked by the progression of Mommy to Mom to Mother...

The Images of Mother

4 YEARS OF AGE - My Mommy can do anything!

8 YEARS OF AGE - My Mom knows a lot! A whole lot!

12 YEARS OF AGE - My Mother doesn't really know quite everything.

14 YEARS OF AGE - Naturally, Mother doesn't know that, either.

16 YEARS OF AGE - Mother? She's hopelessly old-fashioned.

18 YEARS OF AGE - That old woman? She's way out of date!

25 YEARS OF AGE - Well, she might know a little bit about it!

35 YEARS OF AGE - Before we decide, let's get Mom's opinion.

45 YEARS OF AGE - Wonder what Mom would have thought about it?

65 YEARS OF AGE - Wish I could talk it over with Mom.

Thanks, Anita~how true!

spring break-day 3 outlet shopping

Livie, mady & mommy go to the outlets in ny…need I say more?

spring break-day 2 liberty science center

Well, today steven’s part of the family…hey, what’s one more?
Today was Liberty Science Center day-what’s to do here?

How about a good IMAX?-wild ocean, perhaps?

Sounds good.

What else? The solar coaster simulator…mom wouldn’t touch it with a 10-ft pole!!

Mady did some wall climbing,

livie did some swinging and building
ben checked out the gravity pull ratios on different planets
and kayt & steven tried to psych-out the height indicator machine.
Jake doesn’t know what he wants to do.
Then some mommy & me shots:
This is how jake thought our ‘together’ picture should look like…but if I pinched his little bumbuskie he actually smiled! Oh, mom, you’re so smart!

And ben didn’t feel very well so it was really pushing it to get even this little smile for this pic.
Mady diagnosed this patient perfectly…she discovered his illness.

Mommy’s patient? he’s dead.
We went into the ‘buildings’ section where ben did a high walk…uuuhhh, not for anyone else!
Mady, uncle marc would be proud to know that you can work a bulldozer (wait, I don’t think that’s what it’s called but-whatever!)
And an actual piece of bent steel from the twin towers. Pretty impressive.

end of day 2

spring break-day 1 the blankets

First of all i have a disclaimer: i did not come up with this one-thing-a-day idea... i was reading wubben's world and liv was standing over my shoulder and thought that was such a great idea. well, not to be outdone by miss artsy-fartsy fun-girl kathy, i decided to give it a shot. ok-here it goes...

Day 1 Craft Day.

Oh, what to do, what to do…so MANY crafts out there! They decided on making fleece blankets-just like the one kayt’s friend Ashley made for her. So off to Joanne fabrics we go. Options, options, options. Back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. This one, no, maybe this one…back to the first one. ‘but I saw that one first, and I don’t want her to have the same one as me’. ‘how about getting the same one (since you DO share a room and all) and making the back different colors?’ what a GREAT idea-never thought about that. Ok. Settled. But now for ben-which wasn’t as hard a decision. Bugs-no, spiders are better! Super-let’s go! 2nd thoughts, back to check one more time…mom gives the 2 minute call while standing at the cutting counter. Final decision-both do (adorable) monkey faces-one gets bright orange on the back, the other gets lime green. We thought orange was pretty cool for ben-and it matched! Done!

At home we laid our stuff out on the floor and put in the new Velveteen Rabbit movie and got to work.

Mom taught us to measure it out to make sure it was even, and to make markings where the border was to be cut.

Since ben didn’t feel very well he had no interest in the blanket. We tried the guilt trip thing: ‘we took the time to get just the right one for you’, 'mom paid good money for this’ (where’d we learn that verbiage?!) ‘you need to get up and do something-it’ll make you feel better’. (and that!) guess what? It didn’t work so we ended up doing his…until he was pulled in, that is. We knew it!! He saw how much fun we were having and, of course, had to do it too. So, end of our fun on cozy day one.

you go girls!

Softball season is here again!
Go Rockies! (Mady’s team)

Go Mets! (Livie’s team) we have no picture of her at the parade but we have a really good reason…her team decided that at 12 they were too cool to march in the parade. Alrighty then.

SOS!!

I’m putting out an APB for double zout candy. (be honest, how many of you read this like 3 times b/c you can’t believe it’s me asking for dutch licorice?) yes, it’s true. Ed gave me one for a sore throat once and that was the beginning of the end-or the end of the beginning-or whatever! Anyway, word on the street is that the company is going to d/c them. Eeek! They don’t have them at the big dutch store in Canada or at our local deSnoep Winkel. I’m going into full-speed-ahead mode to try to locate these. All you Lyndenites: please check the windmill and take all they have (oh please-I meant BUY them…maybe I’ll pay you back…on paypal!) oh yea, that reminds me to check on ebay-why didn’t I think of that FIRST?! But they’d probably come pre-sneezed-on by someone with cow pneumonia disease or whatever that new epidemic that they’re COMPLETELY blowing out of proportion on the news.