Monday sketch #73

It is Monday - which means Sketch time! 

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I hope you get a chance to play with the sketch! I am about to do so myself - but first I am going to pull all my retiring stamp setsfrom the CD shelves I store all my stamps on!  I have been in denial for a few weeks with this list - I usually pull them all off my shelf right away so I can see what all will be gone soon.  But this time I am not ready to say good bye yet!  If you want to shop the list and see what all is on its way out AND 25% OFF - you can browse through them the easiest on my ismyangel secure shopping site - they are all pictured and listed with their sale price here!

What an exhausting weekend! The crop, vendor faire and school canival - and I am not even going to talk about Mother's Day.  I can't.  I just hope and pray that I never made my mom feel the way I did yesterday. I want a do-over! LOL!!! I hope that I can let it go and not make my husband and kiddos feel guilty for the rest of the days they walk the earth because it was seriously the WORST day ever.  I just have to say a few things though.  I think for me what really gets me right in the heart is that this is what defines me right now.  I am a stay at home MOM.  That is technically what I "do".   I guess once again I set myself up for dissapointment - I expect more than they are capable of doing - although this time I seriously was expecting the worst because my husbands Mother was on vacation and we always do Mother's Day with them.   All I want is a little validation from them - tell me they love me and how great a mom I am.  I know I am not perfect - but I do alot for them and I feel like they should appreciate me this ONE day a year.  The funniest thing - I actually had to ARGUE with my youngest that there was only ONE day - and he said there was one last year and there will be another one next year.  ARGH!!

Oh ya that's right -I said I was not going to talk about it didn't I?!?!  Raise your hand if you can relate - I am sure that it is a pretty universal feeling at one time or another.

Well off to stamp - and send my mom more lovin...

Comments

[Karen]

Yes, I do think alot of us build this one day a year up in our minds way too much. Having said that, I was disappointed yesterday too. I am resigned to the fact that every mother's day my son spends it with his wife's family. He does call me from their house and I can hear the laughter in the background...yay..but yesterday he said he was going to be driving home from their place and he would stop by...well he never showed up. I called his house at midnight(snicker),left a message, just to say, well I guess he wasn't going to make it...still waiting to hear from him. I would have been more worried but after all the "be considerate lectures" I've given him thru the years, I knew he was ok, just totally rude. My dh is 3,000 miles away visiting his mom, so thanks for letting me vent to you,lol.

[Suzanne Edwards]

Yikes! So sorry you had a bad day!

[Debi]

I can relate as well! Being a mother is the most rewarding, disappointing, fabulous, challenging,nothing can replace it thing in the world.
I still love you my angel mom.

[Debra]

Being a mother is the most important job and the job you just can't quit! Remember your kids can show you so much love one day, and the next nothing and even be nasty, and think nothing of it. My kids were ok this year but they're still sort of young to understand mother's day and the meaning of it.