A Mother's Day Tea

Wednesday I was invited to a tea in Caleb's first grade classroom. It was humbling to read what he had written about me.
Caleb's words encouraged me to be a better mom and to be the mom he believes me to be.

Here is an example of what I learned about myself as Caleb's mom. First we had to pick the picture of ourselves out from the artwork displayed on the wall . . . the other mom's were enjoying looking at all the pictures when I arrived and were teasing me - saying that it was going to be tough for me to find myself.

Short red hair, earrings and an orange shirt. It's me alright!

Heh, Heh, Heh -

Next all the children read the back of the above picture to their mom. It was titled:

My Mother!

My mother is the most wonderful mom in the world.
She is as pretty as the Erthe.
She weighs about 40 pounds and she is about 40 feet tall.
Her favorite food is tokos.
In the good old days when Mom was little, she used to robd sigres.
I think Mom looks funny when when she opin her moth!
I know she is really angry when she gos cwit!
I wish Mom would play with me everyday.
I wouldn't trade my mother for one theng.

Happy Mother's Day!

That was the silly part. . . next they presented the following:

I about lost it at that point. Each of us were given a picture of our child in a painted black frame. Caleb is holding a paper heart. All but the heart were black and white or sepia.

During the tea the children served punch and goodies. We enjoyed our time togther!