Happy Mother’s Day. I hope you had a good day. It’s a bittersweet day for me. I spent so many years missing a baby on this day that even now I’m reminded that it is a day where mothers miss children and kids are missing mothers. Whatever emotions today brings for you I want you to know it’s okay.
Around our house notes have been popping up. Lots of notes. The kids received notebooks in their Easter baskets and they were a big hit, especially with the little guy (five years old, preschool). He keeps his with him all the time and is constantly passing notes. The prime time for his notes is after bedtime. He tosses them over the banister, so he isn’t seen and doesn’t get his trains put up. Here are a few of them…
All this note passing has been good for the souls around here. It made me think about the power of writing to make others feel special. Try it this week and see if passing a note is good for your soul too.
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Sometimes the posts I read percolate. This is one of those posts. Today my husband went for a day-long interview for a new and exciting job. He had to leave the house about an hour after me, so I knew I wouldn’t get the chance to see him off. So, with your post in the back of my mind, I left him a note on the seat of his car. It was good for both of our souls. Thank you!
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I love hearing all the things you do with writing at home. When my grandson was younger, he used to write us notes, then tell us all the things they said, sometimes whole paragraphs of talk on one small note! At school, one thing I started in the classroom was that everyone was asked to give a sticky note of support (a compliment, comment on work, etc.) to someone in the classroom during the week, & they had to find someone else to give one too the next week. It was a success & I noticed students displayed their sticky notes prominently at their personal spaces/desks. We talked about including everyone, & that never seemed to be a problem.
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I also give notebooks and writing utensils to my grandchildren whenever I get a chance. Since I don’t live with them, I see them writing in them sometimes when I’m at their house and ask them what they’re writing/drawing. When I see them at my house and ask what they wrote, they don’t remember. So, what to do??? I’ve decided to give them each one to stay at my house–I found small pudgy ones with blank pages!!!! I will find the time for us to draw/write something in them when they’re here or when I babysit!! And we will share our entries!!! Maybe we’ll have a little activity before hand so they definitely have something to write/draw about (mini-lesson–oh, my!). This is the writing teacher in me that won’t stop even when retired!! Writing is so good for us as mothers and grandmothers!! I had a great Mother’s Day!!!
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This reminds me of our mother-daughter journal. When my daughter was in 3rd grade, my husband was deployed. There was lots of talking and lots of emotion, but often too much, especially at bed time. We began a journal with the only “rules” being if one of us left it for the other at bedtime, the other would leave the reply so the reader found it when she woke. The other “rule” was that the contents were not shared with others. The journal has continued for years with waxing and waning frequency, but always very special.
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