Macaroni and Glitter



Blue Ice Sea Glass
40% off Code MOTHERSDAY
at checkout.

Mother's Day is right around the corner. I've been thinking a lot about it, because I am of the 40% sale I am having at my etsy shop. It's taken me back to days gone by.

My children are all older now with the oldest due to turn 21 and becoming a Dad this year, and the youngest on the verge of his driver's license come this summer and my daughters falling in between. I miss macaroni and glue...

Seriously, those little cards the children would bring home from school that make a mess no matter where I proudly display them? Try to save them, go ahead, and yes, the macaroni falls off! Rendering the likeness of me in all my glory in the shape of an elbow with crazy green and gold hair turn into something more like the shape of a stick of dynamite after the explosion.

They were made with such love, each one a Picasso master piece... yet when they are grown, they are all gone... The time when I was their only love, their only desire was to see Mommy smile, and then in a flash, it is all gone by the way side. Thier new loves, babies, and jobs, and girlfriends, and new sneakers... they take mama's place and store bought Mother's Day cards, though well meaning, adorn the fireplace mantle or TV top, all crisp and clean with no mess to fuss about. Sure they are beautiful, and sure they are full of love. Yet, they lack in the innocence of the mommy of the year I used to be. Yes, mommy of the year! Before the time when groundings, and homework forcings. Before the times of "no, you may nots" and "I can't believe you did such a thing!" Before the time of "clean up your pig sty" and "can you at least TRY to act like a mature 14 year old for just one second?"

Growing up got in the way....

All my love!
~Sherry