Here Comes Your Future....BEWARE!

This past weekend in our town was homecoming. At preschool yesterday, the teachers posted up pictures of their gorgeous sized zero daughters who look like models and wrote on the dry erase board: "Here's the future...it will be here before you know it!" And I could only think of how that was cruel and unusual punishment. I don't need the reminder that it all goes by so fast. And as I write this Maddie has her Naked Porn Star looking Barbies getting into the corvette to go for a ride....

Last week was Mother's Day at the preschool. Cute little presentations followed by cinnamon muffins and lemonade times two for me. The kids also made me presents, but Maddie made me give mine back to her because "I made it mom, so that means it's MINES!".

Maybe someday in the future my daughter would like to take a photo with her mother. This is what she did when I asked her nicely to take one with me. Nate wanted to always remember the giant lemonade trough, so he asked me to take a picture of it for him. And of course I did!

I don't like this picture of me, but at least Nate didn't mind taking a photo with his mama!

And here is Mr. Cool pants performing. Right in front of the infamous lemonade cooler.
The little ones performed in the sanctuary. This is what Maddie does when I say "Smile for the Camera!"

This has been a BIG week, and it keeps getting bigger. Thursday was my mother's day 'show'. Saturday I ran my first ever 8k, "Kicking the Trails" to support a family at church whose son has leukemia, and somehow I became the church organizer and got about 20 people to walk and raise money. It was cold and rainy so I ran it...not my best time, but running uphill on some big ass rocks trying to avoid tree roots was hard. So was running back down a wet leafy trail. Maybe next year I'll do better. Or maybe next year I'll just walk with everyone else.

Sunday was Mother's Day. I had to read the litany and response at church for the 8:30 service, so I sort of foiled the whole "Breakfast in Bed" thing, which is okay by me. We had a ginormous brunch when we got home. Also, in lieu of a formal "Happy Mother's Day" the boys found it prudent to simultaneously shoot me with their lasers.

For the record, John's lecture on NOT fighting on Mother's Day was pretty much a waste of breath for him. The boys fought about who could hand over the card, then the almost tore the card yelling about who wrote what on the card, etc. etc. I felt bad for the DAD. He tried. He did succeed in making a nice fish dinner and we all went and saw that "Oceans" movie. I highly recommend it; although Nate declared when the sharks were not on the screen, "Moooom. This mooobie is boooooring." It was NOT.

Now, between Cub Scouts last night, Soccer practice for the little ones (yay cancelled), a surgical followup for Maddie and Jack's soccer game, I will be ready to work tomorrow, and attend Nathan's preschool graduation on Thursday.

That's right. He's graduating 4 year old preschool and moving into the big time...kinneygarten. Instead of beautiful prom photos, I could hold up a baby pic of Nate, and then his graduation picture and say to all the new moms "Here now, is YOUR future. It will be here before you know it". And it's true. It seems so impossible that 7 years ago I held my own baby for the first time.

And now in 2 days my middle son will be a graduate. Sure, it's only preschool, no big deal you say. And I think, Preschool today....college tomorrow. It's here before I know it.