I nearly lost Jake!

Yesterday morning, Jake went with me to drop the girls off at school.  On the way home, we were discussing whether or not Josh would be up when we got home.  Jake decided that he would still be asleep and wanted to stick Josh's hand in some warm water to help him pee the bed.  I told Jake that he would have to clean the sheets if he did.  Jake had the nerve to tell me, "What?  I thought you would be happy to clean it.  That's what woman do, isn't it?"  After that, everything is a blur.  I know the boy made it home somehow.  How, I'm not sure. 

Good luck with that!

This morning on the way to school, Jake told me that he had decided on the names of his kids. He has decided upon Lennard, Phitspatrick and Gertrude. I tried explaining to him that his woman might have some names of her own picked out, but he is convinced that she will be alright with these names. Let’s all just hope that he has two boys and a girl!

Mother’s Day at the Roberts’ house Part 2

After that wonderful breakfast, I was given my super duper gifts. 
Mike fixed the grill.  The gas stuff stopped working, so Mike had to take it all apart and get new parts.  I'm so impressed that he is able to do stuff like that.  I really appreciate him.  :)

Then I got some solar lights.  They are really cool.  We went out and looked at them last night (in the rain) and they look so nice.  Mike said something about needing some to take on future campouts.   haha

I also got a new cat litter box.  Now, you might be thinking this is kind of not such a great gift.  Well, you'd be wrong!  Mike knows how much I really HATE taking care of the cat litter.  These animals of ours seem to need help with their aim.  Most days I am having to clean the floor from litter that gets kicked all over the floor.  This thing should hold all that litter in the box so I won't have to do as much sweeping!  YEAH!!!

Then while at the Kids and Cops last month, Emma and Mike got me these wonderful glass spinners.  I couldn't ask for anything more.  :)  Fortunately for me, the day wasn't quite over yet. 

After church, we came home to a wonderful dinner.  I ate so much food I could barely move.  Emma made more deviled eggs.  She found a good recipe and made them all by herself.  :)  She is quite excited to be able to make something by herself.  :)  Then after dinner, the kids put all the leftovers away and did the dishes.  It was a real treat!  I wish every day was Mother's Day.  :)

Mother's Day at the Roberts' house Part 1

This is what I saw when I walked into the kitchen this morning.  Emma and Josh were hard at work making a special breakfast for me.   They debated making just me breakfast.  Then they decided to make a buffet breakfast for everyone to enjoy.  I'm really glad they did. 

They pulled out the "good" china and actually used placemats and nice napkins.


They made the food look wonderful and enviting.  They cooked so much food that you would have thought we were feeding an army.  :)

Josh even made up a new recipe that Mike and the kids loved.  He is on a banana chip kick right now.  He put a banana chip in a marshmallow and stuck them in the freezer.  Josh drizzled some with chocolate and everyone seemed to really like those.

  They even used the flower arrangement Mike got me as part of the breakfast buffet.  They hung bananas from the pot and put the "rose" flowers I made for my primary class in with the flowers.  It really looked neat.  I told them that we should make this buffet a new family tradition on Mother's Day, possibly Father's Day as well!  :)