Bacation

We are on bacation. Bergen calls it bacation, and it's kind of stuck. Stay tuned next week for many pictures from San Antonio. Bacation Rocks!!!

Hope's Journey Garage Sale

I wanted to let you know of a very worthwhile cause on Saturday. One that you can give and get at the same time!

One of the minister's family at our church is trying to adopt a young lady from Ukraine. They feel totally led by God that this is the right thing for their family, but for some reason I'll never understand, you need like a bazillion dollars to adopt. What's up with that? Read more about their story here.

This Saturday, there's a HUGE garage sale to help raise money for adoption fees. Please see below the details. There will be something there for everyone.

Date: Saturday, June 6, 2009
Time: 8:00am - 2:00pm
Location:Covenant Christian Academy
901 Cheek-Sparger Rd.
Colleyville, TX 76034

Last Day of School Lunch

In the 1st grade, you eat lunch at 11am. Sooooo early! But in Kinder you eat at 10:30....which is usually when I'm finishing up my coffee. I never made it to school last year to eat at 10:30 and I'm going to go ahead and blame Bergen. Who wants to drag a 1 year old up there? Not me!

This year I ate with Preston....ZERO times. Yes, I know... I'm SUCH a good mother! But I work through my lunch so I can leave early and pick him up from school. So no need to call CPS...I'm really not THAT bad.

Today I suprised Preston with a Happy Meal for lunch and saved him from the dreaded "Culinary Favorites" day which is basically "whatever is leftover" day. These poor kids were eating flatbread with cheese and garlic. When Preston saw me he ran and gave me a big hug and said "thank you for saving me from Culinary Favorites"!! HA! That really made me laugh.

I enjoyed the company of several 7 year old boys fresh off the playground. Sweat + Garlicky Flatbread. Awesome. They are such sweet boys. I had a really good time! I told Preston I would eat with him more often next year when the lunch time is bumped up to 11:30. And I will check to make sure it's not "culinary favorites" day. Yikes!

But this story is not quite complete without a run-in with the mom who is *always* at school and another mom...baby in tow. It went a little something like this.

Always there mom to Mom with baby - "are you eating lunch?"

Mom with baby - "No - and I haven't all year and I feel bad about it!"

Me - "Don't feel bad! You have a baby! And this is the first time I've eaten here...ever"

Always there mom to me - "You've never eaten lunch here with your child?"

Me - "No. It's 11am! I just finished my coffee! No really, I work and well, I work. My boss is out of town so...oh look at the time...gotta run...back to work."

So thank you Always There Mom for bursting my bubble and making me feel like a slacker mom. I wonder if she drives that Mercedes?