mama worries...

Today was playgroup day. We joined some of our Thursday playgroup friends at Vincent and Peter's house for some fun. We shared toys and laughs and mamas shared stories and worries...it seems all moms do this, huh??? We get together and discuss what's been going on, questions, comments and worries. Worries about are they developing and growing the way they should. Worries about how well they'll do in school. Worries about them hanging out with the "wrong" group. Worries about them getting older and all the disappointments and discourages that will come their way. Worries about just life in general. Truth is we can only be with them, help them and guide them so long and so far. Then it's up to them to make the right choices and decisions in their life...and a LOT of prayer from mama to! Always!
Don't let the worries take over your life. Enjoy the good times and forget the bad. Know in your heart that you've done your best and the mistakes that they may or may not make will be lessons learned.

And so I thought this poem might be nice...

"Of all the work we do, nothing will have a greater impact on lives, including our own, then the work performed with the little ones who encircle our knees and call us father and mother. How comforting it is then, with all the changes taking place in the world around us, to know that there is a place, with tangible results, to focus our interests. Our homes: where our time, attention, thoughts and efforts become the building blocks for shaping both communal relationships and individual character. Where our own attitudes, choices and personal deportment carry the greatest influence..." from Seeing The Everyday magazine, #2


Tomorrow our group will be visiting the residents at Mimosa Manor nursing home in Keller. We've been planning a valentine card exchange with them. Hunt and I have been working on our homemade cards to take for a couple of weeks now. We've been doing a few here and a few there.
Here are some snap shots of Hunt making his cards...








Next week will be our Early Childhood PTA group's Valentine party, so that means we'll be making more homemade cards to pass out to our friends as well. Oh will I ever get all the glitter cleaned up and dried glue washed away?....probably not, but it sure is fun to make things....