Mothers Day
It's Mothers Day here in France today. Sophie gave me a mask and a card that she made at school and recited a poem she learnt for the occasion. Ummm OK, she actually got too excited after bringing the present home on Friday and gave it to me then, and she's been showing me "the surprise" through the classroom window for the past week !
Makes a change from the usual pasta necklace ! I'll have to find a place on the wall later. At least we know why they wanted us to buy a chamois leather (or is it shammy leather in English?)
Also, in this cranky country (apologies to any French people reading !) where you get given a medal for banging out loads of kids (you get a bronze medal for four, a silvre medal for five and a gold medal for six or more - I'm not making this up, honestly !!), we were invited to a champagne reception courtesy of the mayor for anyone who had a baby in 2005. After some lovely (?!) accordion music and a glass of bubbly, all the mums and babies received their presents.
Juliette and Sophie are already fighting over who gets the fluffy duck pyjama case (so maybe the mums with 6 kids do deserve that medal after all!)
Plus I'll be getting a present from Mike once he and Sophie get back from their top secret mission to buy a cake (that Sophie whispered in my ear first thing this morning !) I'm not supposed to know about Mike's present either but you can't blame Sophie for letting the cat out of the bag for that one - he forgot to hide it when I opened the car door last week, then had to run upstairs "for something I forgot" to give him a chance to shove it in the boot !!!
Happy Mothers Day !
Posted by Hx — 30 May 2006, 12:18
I didn't get a medal when you were born but we did fill up a book with green shield stamps after spending all our money on baby stuff(no freebie sites in those days)which I used to get a bottle warmer which came in very handy to keep my tea warm on those long nights awake
Posted by dad — 29 May 2006, 18:05
That's a wonderful Mother's Day! And don't apologize ... we left France after all! :-)
Posted by Stefbsl — 28 May 2006, 18:07