Once again, I lose the prize for “Mother of the Year”! I just can’t believe that after four children, how I could have missed something so basic, so required, so essential!  It is almost just too embarrassing to share with you.  Like I said – almost!  :-) Yesterday was one of those action packed days from sun up to sun down.  Do you know what I mean?  The end of the first school quarter landed on none other than a festive filled Halloween weekend, complete with elementary school parties to middle school dances; volunteer work for the drug awareness program in the morning to pottery art class after school.  Somewhere in the middle of the day, Dan and I managed to watch a Jennifer Anniston movie while I was making celery raisin snacks for Isaac’s party. It all began with an earlier than normal alarm for a Friday morning.  You see, Violet was helping out with Red Ribbon week at the elementary school.  Since she was dressing up as a fairy to deliver prizes to K-2nd graders for the … [Read more...]