Mother's Day Project

Wow!!  It sure has been a while since my last post.  Like over a month.  And so much has happened in the last month.  Where to begin???  I guess with Mother's Day. 

I get the Family Fun magazine every month and I really enjoy the articles and the crafts they have.  The crafts are generally inexpensive and easy enough for Cristyn.  So for Mother's Day, I decided to start a new tradition.  Our old tradition was to always go home and spend the weekend at Mama's house and have yummy food and good company.  That has been a bit of a challenge now that we live in Savannah.  I go home and spend time with Mama quite often so this year I decided I would stay in Savannah and spend the day with my girls....no traveling, no plans, just a relaxing day doing a mother-daughter project.  The project we (well I guess I) picked was making bird baths using a clay pot and saucer and mosaic tiles.

I had it all planned in my head.  While Lizzie napped, the big girls and I would design each of their mosaic tile bird baths and have a wonderful time while doing it.  I kind of wanted this to be a girl only event, but Parker didn't really take the hint so he helped too.  The only reason I wanted it girls only is because I knew he would want to do it his way and not agree with their design and cause an argument....and he did :).  I should have bought enough supplies so that EACH of my big kids (Parker included) could have their own.  Anywho...I digress. 

Parker was sweet enough to mix the mortar and set us up a neat little area with his saw horses on the back patio.  We each had a putty knife and it was just as I had planned for about the first 5 minutes.  After those five minutes of bliss of me watching my girls interact together without fighting Jaycee dropped her design on mosaic tiles on the patio and big crocodile tears began to flow.  Bless her heart she worked so hard making this design and it was super cool I might add.  After we picked up the pieces and tweaked the design to make up for the broken pieces we began to put the mortar down.  After a few minutes, Jaycee, being the too cool for school pre teen she is, decided she was done and went to ride her bike and left me to finish hers. Cristyn, still my sweet tender hearted baby, doesn't like to leave Mama by herself and stayed with me until we finished both.  We talked about whatever was on her mind and I praised her for what a good job she was doing and I loved every minute of it.

The bird baths are now complete and in my flower bed in the front yard.  Although the day didn't turn out exactly as planned, I still enjoyed every minute.  If anything, it reminded me how fast they are growing and they won't be little much longer.  It also showed me that no matter what, I think Cristyn will always be my baby.  Hope you enjoy the pictures.

Until next time.....