Mother's Day Tea

Grayson and I had a very special time together on Thursday.  Every year his school puts on a Mother's Day Tea for the kindergarten moms.  They coach them on manners beforehand, so that when we moms arrived our kids waited for us at the door of the "tea room" and escorted us to a seat.  Then they very carefully served us tea and waited patiently until we finished.  Each of our kids wrote us a poem, which they read in front of the group.  Grayson's went like this, "I love my mom.  She is Jessica.  She is the best.  I love my mom."  Here he is reading it to me:

After the poems, they sang us a couple of songs, and then we played a game called "Guess Who."  The teachers asked the kids questions about their mom ahead of time, and we were supposed to guess who the mom was based on the kids answers. That was a lot of fun.  I'll tell you, though, I was sweating that one.  You never know WHAT kids are going to say or take out of context.  Thank goodness Grayson's answers were all accurate and socially acceptable.  At the end they presented us with gifts: a vase they painted, a bookmark they made, and a copy of our poem.

I am so thankful to his teachers for giving Grayson and I a day we will treasure forever. 

Comments

[Expat Mom]

Happy Mother´s Day! :D Wow, I love that photo of the two of you together, you´re so beautiful.

I see Grayson got your talent, that vase is really well done. I would happily display something like that in my house. That is a really sweet thing for the school to do . . . just think, if you´d kept him at home, you would have missed all this wonderful stuff!

[Joy]

That's a great photo of you two!

[arizaphale]

Well, I'm not even going to mention that photo of the two of you since it has been covered already :-) but the vase....looks professional!!!! And I am so impressed by what the school put on. There should be more of it. At High School too!!!!!Grrrr