{"id":1367,"date":"2011-05-09T00:18:32","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T00:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homesteademporium.wordpress.com\/?p=1367"},"modified":"2011-05-09T00:18:32","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T00:18:32","slug":"mothers-day-edition-of-silly-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/09\/mothers-day-edition-of-silly-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother’s Day Edition of Silly Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today is Mother’s Day, and thanks to a couple of my dear children, I have lots of silliness to share!<\/p>\n

First, I’d like to share the ‘not so silly’ cards created for me by the twins, Shaylah and Julia.<\/p>\n

Julia complained that she had to have Shaylah help her draw the tulip on the card she made me, but as I pointed out to her, everyone can’t be perfect at everything, and Julia can write the most beautiful, heartfelt and heart warming, words.<\/p>\n

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It says:<\/p>\n

every day when I look at you I can’t believe that I can have you as my mom. You are pretty as the prettyist tulip in the whole world.\u00a0<\/em>
\nI love you very much mommy.\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Shaylah also has a way with words, she made me two cards.
\nThe first one said:<\/p>\n

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 My Dear sweet mother I hope your day <\/em>\nIs filled with Love and laughter smiles and happiness!!<\/em>\n\nI Love you mom <\/em>\n\nFrom: Shaylah<\/em>\nThank you mom for every thing <3 Love ya <\/em>\nI know that I don\u2019t act like I do but I do love you<\/em><\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n
She’s wrong. She does act like she loves me, she just has to work on her grumpies and complaining.<\/p>\n
But then, couldn’t we all?<\/p>\n
Now, onto the SILLY stuff!<\/p>\n
And boy, do we have silly today!<\/strong><\/p>\n
Elsa, as I’ve shared in the past, can not avoid speaking the truth in anything and everything. Her truth is very ‘candid’. Some people might find some of her words ungrace-ful, and at times, hurtful, but really, you simply have to know Elsa, and I suppose some understanding of Aspergers helps as well. Her truth is not gray, it is black and white. EVERYTHING is black and white. Everything just is as it is, and it is as SHE perceives it. She doesn’t intend for it to be hurtful, she just intends it to be what it is!<\/p>\n
Because of her learning ‘issues’, Elsa is behind in some areas. Reading and Writing are two of those areas. Everything else she fares out pretty good and even excels at math etc., but reading and writing she just doesn’t care much for and it’s a constant struggle for her.<\/p>\n
So, when I opened Elsa’s card today and saw that she had written me not just a quick “Happy Mother’s Day<\/strong>!” but taken the time to put THOUGHT<\/strong><\/em> into her card, and quite a few WORDS, I was VERY impressed indeed!<\/p>\n
This was BIG<\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n
Here is the inside of Elsa’s card to me this Mother’s Day.<\/p>\n
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Just in case you can’t read the card, I shall type it out for you, and I’ll fix her spelling mistakes too.<\/p>\n
To Mommy<\/em><\/p>\n
Mom The kisses you give to me and your hugs you give to me is good and sometimes all of it makes me want to puke!<\/em><\/p>\n
Love Elsa<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Yep! That’s my Elsa.<\/p>\n
Here on the homestead, we try very<\/strong><\/em> hard to let our kids grow up being THEMSELVES<\/strong><\/span>. That can be a constant struggle as a parent, trying hard not to ‘squash’ their uniqueness while trying to raise them to be good and honorable!<\/p>\n
Some how, I think we’ve succeeded in letting Elsa truly be Elsa<\/span>. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n
Ha!<\/strong><\/p>\n
There was a fairly good uproar of laughter at the breakfast table. I told Joshua that she may just have out done his Mother’s Day card.<\/p>\n
I hope you all have a great sense of humor, I found it very funny.<\/p>\n
Gross, but funny.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n
My beautiful Mother’s Day card from my one and only son.<\/p>\n
To make it a little more ‘family’ friendly, I added a flower sticker. Hee hee.<\/p>\n
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And, the inside. The outside would be nothing without the inside.<\/p>\n
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I bet you thought I had the most perfectly behaved and respectable kids on the planet, didn’t you?<\/p>\n
Well I do really, but they all have a great sense of humor too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today is Mother’s Day, and thanks to a couple of my dear children, I have lots of silliness to share! First, I’d like to share the ‘not so silly’ cards created for me by the twins, Shaylah and Julia. Julia complained that she had to have Shaylah help her draw the tulip on the card […]<\/p>\n
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