Tuesday finally came and Sadie changed from her Hello Kitty pajamas into her Snowman pajamas and off she went. Mrs. Becky is very lucky because she has an "in" with Santa Claus. It is the REAL Santa according to Sadie.
Even though my other children have told her it is Mr. Becky (yes, that's what Sadie calls him), she insists that it can't be him because he has to work. And even though I've mentioned that the real Santa doesn't make appearances, she is still "so escited." I think it's kind of cute that Sadie believes whatever she wants to, just like with the Easter Bunny.Sadie was also "escited" because she got her first gift of Christmas. A necklace from this cutie:
I guess Garrett has quite the crush on Sadie. So much so that he might have sticky-fingered a necklace from Mrs. Becky's house to give to her (along with $2). It was returned and his mom helped him make a much less expensive one. He also took our Christmas card and carried it around to so much that there are holes in it, so Sadie thought maybe she should give him a picture of herself for Christmas.Tuesday was also Ellie's Winter Choir Concert. I'm not a big fan of her music teacher's orginizational skills so I was kind of dreading the performance. Especially after Nate's Christmas concert where we sang Jingle Bells 800 million times (yes, there are no pictures of that since it starts 30 minutes late, a full hour after "call time" and the entire school was shoved in a tiny little cafeteria and left to chase after their screaming babies and toddlers who decided their hour of being good was up). So yes, I was not "so escited." I thought it would be smart to get Courtney to watch Luke since he cannot sit still more than one hour a week and I reserve that for Sacrament Meeting. Sadie decided she did NOT want to change out of her PJs, so I left her home as well.
It was actually a pretty cute concert and Ellie did a great job. It's so cute to see her smiling while she is singing. Her little dimples shows up. And maybe some of my jealousy appears as well. How I wish I could sing and be in a choir!!The next day was the holiday known as Thelastdayofschool. Everyone was SO SO escited, but this is where my Mommy Guilt set in. I feel bad that I had to miss out on Nate's party. It was in the morning and there was no way I could swing it. I still had to run some errands for Ellie's class party (like picking up the teacher gift and making hot chocolate) and I seriously would have felt horrible pawning off Luke and Sadie for another 2 hours of the day. There are SO many volunteers in 1st grade and I *had* to Ellie's party since I'm her room Mom. I just felt so bad because I hate to miss anything. I'm still an OK mom, right? Plus I had just been in his classroom on Friday for Art Masterpiece. And Thursday I volunteered in there.
Ellie's class party went perfectly. Seriously so little chaos. I was impressed with the kids. Usually I come home from class parties and kiss my children after dealing with their peers for an hour, but these kids were really fun and sweet. The moms of her class are so amazing too. A lot of them have gone back to work, but so many of them took off to come in and help or e-mailed me to make sure I didn't need them to run to the store. Everything I asked for was donated times 10.
We did a hot chocolate bar where I had a Would You Rather game I made up, some minute to Win-It games, other random games (Blind Snowman, a relay race and the Candy Bar Game), and a craft station. You know what game we were NOT going to play? BINGO. Last year Ellie's room mom played BINGO for every.single.holiday. Literally for almost an hour they played BINGO. And there were prizes, but it wasn't like, "No, you won a prize, let someone else win." It was the same kid (usually sitting next to Ellie and a really obnoxious boy) winning over and over again and shoving it in her face. No no, there would be no BINGO!
After all the prep work I am so glad it ran smoothly and that we.were.DONE!! No homework! No waking up early! And even better -- in just a few hours LOLA was coming!! Can you feel the "escitement"? But we'll save that for it's own post.
2 comments:
That would explain why there was never a post on the 1st grade concert! :)
I didn't know Ellie did choir with her too!
How fun. And no, you are not a terrible mother. There are times we have to make choices to keep us sain, but because we are mothers, we are still racked with guilt.
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