Mom Moments

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Mom moments either happen spontaneously, planned or at night when all three of my children come lay on my bed and laugh, giggle, and good around before bedtime. I love mom moments. Charlie and I made a mom day of it just recently. We got our toes done, her choice, shopped for dresses, lunched, and had time to finish the Lemony Snickett Series of Unfortunate Events on Netflix. Ethan loved these books as a kid and saw the movie made years ago but then Netflix decided to make it a mini series and oh my goodness it is so good. Mostly I think because of the narrator (Patrick Warburton) and Count Olaf (played by Neil Patrick Harris) and Mr Poe (K. Todd Freeman)! Excellently Funny. I haven't had too many chances at mom moments with Valerie. Her schedule is jam packed between school, testing, drivers ed, driving days for drivers ed, preparing for graduation (she is creating the slide show presentation) and socializing. I will have to catch her after graduation 👨‍🎓! I finished her announcements yesterday and as I was addressing them all I could think was "Did I do good enough? Could I have done better?" 

Ethan is far too busy and I can't take him out of school for a mom day because he has incompletes. He has been stuck at the table this past week because he didn't get them taken care of on his own. Now it's me, forcing, dragging, fussing, and making him complete stuff. Grrrrrrr! His head is in the clouds with his girlfriend being his number 1 thought. Cute, but just manage your work bud. I will have to schedule a date maybe this Sunday.

Charlie is progressing in piano and loves her candy rewarding teacher. Her teacher is strict with posture, homework, and playing right but she is also sweet and very talented. She recently played with Michael Bolton at the Tacoma Dome. Crazy. 


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