Mother's Day

This is the Mother's Day jewelry box and I love it.  Levi made the box and the bracelet and a lovely card that just added to the whole beauty. 

Mother's day continues to be a difficult day for me.  I am a little sorry about the coincidence that put Mother's Day as the last Sunday that I spent with Frankie and it certainly contained his last truly happy moment, when he laughed and loved and didn't think about pain.  The kids had bought disc shooters to give their mothers and the kids spent some time that day shooting each other and shooting us and shooting the nurses as they walked past the door.  The boys all laughed and laughed.  It didn't last long.  Frank didn't have the breath to laugh long and the pain was always there ready to jump him again.  But for a few minutes there, it was just three little boys happy and at peace, unaware that just around the corner their world and ours was going to change.

Ah sweetheart, you made me a mother by your birth, but you made me a different kind of mother with your death.  Both changed the very core of me.  Levi has made me a different mother too and he continues to change me every day.  I love you both so much and I am proud to be your mother.

Surprise!

Today I pick up Levi after school, instead of from After School Care.  His soccer practice is at 4pm, so I have adjusted my schedule to allow that to happen.  that would be great, except today is actually Tuesday.  I know it's Wednesday, but all day I have thought it was Tuesday.  Some of it is the fact that I am just back from vacation and the other is that the public holiday Monday has completely mucked my system.  So I am in the middle of something at work, I suddenly realized that it was, in fact, Wednesday.

I made it on time, but it was a bit of a rush.  Then we were chatting on the way home and he was talking about the 'thing' he is making for me for Mother's Day.  He wanted me to guess what it was.  I guessed a few times and then he said;

"Don't guess it's a jewelry box!"

Right as he said it, he clapped his hands over his mouth and then laughed and laughed.

Have I said lately how much I love his sense of humour

Have I said lately how much I love that little mancub!

Happy Mother's Day

This morning I was woken up really early by Levi excited that it was Mother's day and wanted to give me his present. He had made a little wooden hand mirror, that he had painted blue and stuck hearts and stars on it. It was perfect, made more perfect by his statement;

"Mum, You can look into it and see how beautiful you are"

What a charmer!

Then we started the day. Swimming at 7.30am. Soccer at 9am. Levi is getting much more out of soccer this year. Being a year older has made all the difference. He doesn't cry at all and loves the running after the ball. He is still with all of his friends and today got 2 goals. When his friend Natey who is 3 was sad because he hadn't been able to get a goal, Levi took him aside and explained that on a team if one person gets a goal, everyone on the team gets it as well. It made Nate happy again. I love his nature so much, competitive but never at the cost of a friend's feelings.

This afternoon, we had a working bee to help Jo get on top of things at the farm. Most of the kids came over to help and Di and Brian as well. It was great. There was plenty of work and good spirits from all. The trees all got trimmed. The edges of all the paths were all cleaned. I weed whacked with a whipper snipper for about 3 hours and now I can barely open my hands but it was great to have baby sitting and be able to just work hard, without having to think too hard. Levi got drinks for everyone and handed them around. He had his mates Zac and Alex to play with, so he had a really busy day as well. He dropped into bed and was asleep almost instantly. He is in there talking as I type. He always seems to talk in his sleep when he is really really tired.