As you can see by the title, this post is all about Mother's Day and how you can spend it without your husband or with little kiddies that don't have enough loose change for flowers. Of course a simple handmade card would do or an attempt at making you breakfast. But today, as my kids got off the bus, their face grinning from ear to ear, they showed me their amazing gifts they made at school.

So I started thinking...

DAY 1!

With the Spring Holy Days here, one of the biggest struggles I have is finding awesome ideas for my kiddies lunch! I search and search and search the web for ideas that are different from an unleavened sandwich (kids like variety). But first, let me explain just a bit so you can see why this particular time is rough when it comes to finding ideas for school lunches.

As you know our family is one big ol' swirl! I am black and white and my husband is black with strong Native American genes ( I think he is like 1/6).... It's not a lot but boy does it make a difference! You can really see it in his mother and grandmother!

Hello there wonderful people! There has been so much going on in our crazy fun house! To start with, lets say there has been an infestation of colds, viruses and bugs floating around our living space.

HAPPY SPRING! (my second favorite time of the year remember?!) We just  got home from a wonderful, yet exhausting Spring Break. Little Miss Thailand turned 8 and little Miss Phoenix lost two teeth in one week! So if you read my last post, you know it was an EVENTFUL week! One plus was that I got to see my hubby everyday! It truly made my heart so full of joy, I could hardly contain it!

An easy way to cover the wall

2. Another Pinterest favorite, hanging balloons! Balloons can get super expensive, fast! So hanging balloons lower the ceiling and make your decor look "full". The girls loved looking at these for some reason lol

Balloon Drop

3. One of the girls' favorite characters is Apple White. So I added a few fake apples along side one of their Apple White dolls.

Apple White

As a mom, I wear many hats.... we all do.  and in our house, the hat most worn is mediator and bad cop. This post is definitely inspired by the events of today....

So let me fill you in a tad on our current "situation"... As you may know my husband is an entrepreneur and his business really takes him where ever his heart desires, so for the past 2 months he has been building his business in Kansas City. Sooo yes because it is school time, the kiddies and I are still back in Texas. :(. He comes home once a month for a regional event so I get to see him for about 36 hours a month... whomp whomp whooommp....

So anywho yea, that is how my life is going to be for quite some time now and I THINK I have accepted that! But today was just one of those hair pulling, backwards counting, talking yourself off the ledge from a fiery volcano pit kind of day. It started off great, we went on a "field trip" and made some awesome crafts... we even went out for pizza during lunch! But during these events, an occasional squabble would break out.. the girls are trying to one up each other, the baby is screaming because she wants out of her seat and someone hit someone because someone said something about them.. I even pulled a Dorothy ( my grandma) and pulled over on the side of the road and waited until they "straitened out"

I'm not one to really go on and on about how crappy my day was because I do know a lot of people have it worse, I get that.... but still, on my crappy day meter this one was up there!

So as a mom, I am asking you moms... do you ever just feel like your kids just have days when they are just, to put it nicely, bad??