Mom's Muffin Meltdown

If the tardiness of a new post wasn't a clear indication of how life has been on cruise control for the Relle Clan...the following post will take you on a snapshot of our drive...

Friday- Interviews, Texting a parent for coffee due to running late, Pep Rallys, Nick moving Sullivans, Mom in charge of Jack pick up/hair cut/& dinner to Sullivan's, Nick calls it a night, Mom hangs back, then calls it a night (Relle bedtime is 9:30 on Fridays...way past this tonight).

Saturday- Resting up thank goodness because hang on..here we go...

Sunday:

10:15 Gymboree

Lunch afterwards with the McWilliams

Daycare birthday party invite presentS

Nap which Jack woke us up at 2:54 when Jonah's 1st Birthday Party started at 3:00

Running around like crazy and finally at the wonderful celebration (socially late of course)

Here is Jack and Baby Jack..."Hey, I you're name is pretty cool & nice choice of color."

The birthday boy about to blow out his candle!
I mean this one requires no words...
Speaking of cake...when we got home I attempted to make Petite Fours til all hours for Jack's Teachers for Teacher Appreciation that failed and ended up in the trash.
Monday Wayne was out of town so the Parnell's headed over for a weeknight playdate. They arrived just as we got home for work. The boys played, Ashley and I caught up, while Nick lit the grill to make hot dogs for dinner. The boys enjoyed dinner (and so did we).
After a little more playing it was bath time. Nick took care of that so Ashley and I could visit somewhere and I could work on round two of the Teacher Appreciation Petite Fours for Jack's teachers.
On the way home Tuesday the Check Engine light came on (even though we picked up the Jetta not but a few days prior for a routine check up). Nick was able to get an appointment that night at 6:30 so I worked til 6:15 (since the week had been & was going to be booked solid), headed home, he passed me in the door, and arrived as Jack was going down courtesy of Volkswagon. Finishing off the $5,000 we were told would eventually have to go into the car this year....I thought VW was supposed to outlive you?!?

Here is where the muffin comes into the title. Jack's School was having Muffins with Mom on Wednesday morning. The turn out for most events has been pitiful and given the time I ASSumed that taking a half day, splitting my class, or begging for someone to cover would not be worth it...

Here is the outcome from my second attempt at the Petite Fours (again at way too late hours), Nick and Jack had to drop me off for an early morning interview, then Nick had to take him to school, the kids enjoyed the Petite Fours while pretending to have Muffins with Mom as tears filled my eyes at 9:30 thinking of my baby being Mom-Less at school. The day was hard for me, I was exhausted, but no time to grieve...changed for RENT during planning, headed out with Nick to pick up Jack (where I'll be brief- I was told he was 1 of 3 without a Mom, I was given my rose by him, all while being told that it was so cute/sad when the kids would hear the door opening to run to the glass door in their room to see whose Mom was coming for Muffins but not to worry the lady that answers the phone sat with him and they took lots of pictures-ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME-WHY DIDN'T YOU JUST LOOK ME IN THE FACE AND TELL ME HOW MUCH I SUCK AS A MOM), left in tears to pick up the Jetta, met Angela at MST, then headed downtown to Jeremy's.

The culprit...although greatly appreciated and fantastic tasting-Thanks Jeremy! Dinner of not much and way to much to drink...blaming stress, schedules, and Muffins for Moms led to...

Great times with Jeremy, Miley, & Angela...

And not remembering the 2nd half of RENT (even though I had seen it 5 times prior to the evening) with 2 original cast members because I passed out, loosing my phone (thanks for finding it Jeremy & Miley), Angela having to drive me home while I cried hysterically about being tired and muffins, and wanting to die on Thursday morning when I woke up still spinning but had to ride with Nick wrapped in a blanket with Chick-Fil-A to soak up my mistakes and planning the time that afternoon to pick up the Jetta from MST (hoping the candle gifts from Jeremy didn't melt on the backseat while sitting out in the 96 degree heat). In my 6 years I've never made this mistake, blame the meltdown, but will NEVER make it again on a school night again. Good thing my administration is FANTASTIC and my class is at that fine oiled machine stage.

Adison (a student) brought me these beautiful flowers and a cake that she told me to share with Jack to make up for not going to Muffins with Mom...how sweet...I started crying when she gave it too me, every time someone asked me if I was alright (my eyes were swollen from crying & well, I was hung over), and every time I told about the muffin situation.

By Friday Mom and Dad were here...not sure how we made it through the week, the great Mother's Day weekend helped us to survive, but that post will have to come one day this week as it is 11:22 right now, my list is huge, and the week isn't as invasive as lasts...but is still pretty busy for us Relles.

Happy Mother's Day!!!

Say Cheese

A snack of cheese eaten like a mouse...and those eyes...added because he is cute, not flipped because laptop is acting up, and well....he is cute.

American Idol Relle Style

American Idol night at the Relle House is nothing but Good Times! Jack grabs his mircophone, sings along, claps, and listens to the judges.

Watters Open House

Friday we left work and instead of picking Jack up from Watters we stayed for his Toddler Class Open House. The program started with Circle Time where Ms. Christina, the lead teacher, talked and led us through their morning Circle Time routine (singing songs and all). Then she passed out the assignment cards with two activities that Jack was supposed to show us how he does them during the day at class.

His first assignment was the metal insets (which up until now I thought on his sheets of the days activities that he had been working with metal insects...all makes more sense now). He knew exactly where to go to get the materials, sat down, and working away he went.
The first insert was a circle with the red crayon he had chosen, then he flipped over his paper, returned the circle inset, chose a trapezoid inset, and a brown crayon. More tracing, then coloring, and it was time for activity number 2.

This activity was the shapes sheet. He got his paper and a zip lock of colored shapes already cut out. He was able to name the shapes, colors, and glue them onto the proper place on the shape paper. So proud!

Then he knew to clean up by carrying his paper with both hands to the turn in station. My his teachers are going to love his "tendencies"...hopefully they will make up for the little oops like....hitting Alexis earlier this week and running to the playground and scrapping up his knees and face.

For dinner we headed to Watters Crossing and ate pizza at Grimaldi's Pizza. While waiting Jack got to play with some dough on a pizza tray. Nick and I split a salad and then we all split a pesto pizza with pepperoni....Jack loved it!

When we walked out to see "his ducks" by the water there was a band playing and people all around sitting in the grass enjoying the music and beautiful weather. So we sat awhile and even had some gelato for dessert...then it was time to stop at the Container Store to pick up an order, drop the Jetta off for a check up, and then visit with Angela/Melany & their families. We for sure missed out 10 o'clock bedtime on Fridays that we have had all year...but the fun times were worth it.


Here is a short video from Open House...we have more on our real video camera....but that doesn't hook up to this computer and get ready to turn your head because I am too lazy to rotate the movie. Enjoy!

Here is our little duck rider outside the restaurant...they are supposed to be doing some kid friendly movies on a big screen soon....can't wait for that.

Saturday was naps, dinner with Angela at Kelly's Eastside with a walk to the park, and Gymbo today. Nothing much else....resting up for another week closer to Summer to tackle. Hope everyone reading this is doing well!