Mother's Day 2013

This was my most favorite Mother's Day ever! Ellie was so excited, it was almost the best part: to hear her anticipation days before Mother's Day! On Mother's Day, though, Ellie and Noah walked into my room and a bright and early 8:30 in the morning, much earlier than I had wanted. They had brought me breakfast in bed, but I wanted to be down with my children on Mother's Day for breakfast, simply because they were so excited. It seemed selfish to stay in bed and sleep. So we all went to the kitchen table and Ellie Belly brought me a BIN of wrapped presents. She was so excited. When I saw that they were wrapped using the entire brand new role of wrapping paper I had purchased to wrap Amelia's presents, it took everything in me to not say something to them. But let the record show that I was so sad that they had (once again) used wrapping paper without getting approval from me. (At Christmas, Ellie pulled out German wrapping paper that I had gotten in Germany, obviously, but never actually intended to use and I had a talk with her about asking before suing wrapping paper.) Anyway I opened each gift and they were all so wonderful. Homemade present from the kids, pictures and poems and vases of paper flowers. They mean the world to me. Such love and thought went into each of them. So so sweet. Then Ellis had donated $2 to James to purchase new sheets for me. I have been dying to buy new sheets. I have to admit, it totally left me so relieved. I was so worried that James would get me something unpractical, and while sometimes that's okay, I didn't want to be getting lavish or impractical gifts when we are trying to pay of debt. So it was good. James then helped me get the family ready for Church and we all went together. When the kids and I got home James had dinner ready and we ate a feast of his Chicken Alfredo w/Black Beans pasts dish he loves to make. The rest of the day we playing games as a family. It was perfect.

Speaking of debt. Have I mentioned that we paid off my Durango? YES! Last month! Now we are working on paying off our second to last credit card. Next month I have to start paying on my student loans... so that's going to be more money going to debt as well. We are so excited to still be pushing through. I'm a little sad to say that I do know we could be penny pinching a little more, but at this point James isn't wanting to feel that "no money" pain as much, so we've cut back on most things, but not everything.