My Mother's Day card

I made this card for my mother for Mother's Day.  My mother likes simple things so that's why when it was time to make her a card, I didn't even hesitate on making her a simple card.  I made this card last night while my husband was watching the kids.  It literally only took me fifteen minutes to make.  I just used plain white cardstock cut in half and then scored and folded in the middle.  Then I got my Stampin' Up Flower Shoppe punch and Petite Petals punch.  I punched out three flowers using yellow cardstock with the Flower Shoppe punch and I punched out three flowers using Stampin' Up Pistachio Pudding paper with the Petite Petals punch.  I mounted them on dimensionals and then stamped the sentiment Happy Mothers Day on the bottom using my Stampin Up Chocolate Chip ink pad.  My husband mailed off the card today so she should get it by tomorrow, just in time for Mother's Day.

Growing up, I never really truly appreciated my mother the way I should have.  But now that I am a mother to two children myself, I can understand what my mother went through when she was taking care of me and my sister when my father was working.  The biggest difference is my sister and I are four and a half years apart (a whole new generation according to my sister, but whatever), and my two children are only 22 months apart.  We both wanted two children and when he heard how my sister and I are not close, he decided to have our kids to be close in age so they could be close.  We want our children to be close, something I don't have with my very own sister, but I don't want to get into that.

Tonight for dinner I am making a Hamburger Soup.  It has been kind of chilly at night so I decided to make soup for dinner.  Tomorrow I am making an Oriental Chicken Wrap for dinner.  I have some laundry to do this weekend, too.  Laundry seems to always be never ending.  I still have a pile of darks laundry that I never got a chance to put away yet and it's still sitting in the clean laundry basket waiting to be folded and put away.

Last night it seemed to take forever to get both kids to fall asleep.  But I got my son asleep finally but my daughter was still awake.  At one point she woke him up so I had to get him back to sleep again.  But she finally fell asleep around 8:00.  The good news is that she slept all night, but my son woke up in the middle of the night.  Once this summer gets here, we are going to put her on a strict schedule of one hour nap and eleven hours of bedtime sleep.  I think I might incorporate bath time/lavender lotion/soothing music in there for like one hour prior to bedtime.  But we will see how that goes.