Book of Notes

Oh, I had such a wonderful Mother's Day Weekend. On Saturday, I slept in until Mom woke me to tell me we needed to go to town in an hour. So I quickly got ready and we headed to the post office and then to see a matinee of 17 Again. Surprisingly, I really enjoyed it. Pretty funny. And that Zac Efron is pretty cute, never really liked him before, but he's a pretty good actor. Then we bummed around town killing time until we met up with the family for dinner at the Canton City Buffet. Pretty much the whole crew was there, and we had a private room to ourselves thanks to Annie's connections with the owner and we got a group rate. I put everyone's meals on my card (gotta earn those sky miles) and then everyone paid me back. Then we all went back to Grandma's house to play games. Probably one of my favorite times playing the name game. I laughed a lot. The next day, slept in again. Then gave mom her gift. I told her she had to go into her room to open it though and when she was done she could come out. Here is what I made her. A book of notes telling her how much I love her and what a wonderful mother she is.


















Well, she came out crying and gave me a big hug and I totally teared up too. I'm so glad she liked it. I'm quite proud of it. I got the idea from the blog Oh Hello Friend and this post. She made a similar one for her boyfriend and I just loved the idea. Some of the pages are almost exactly alike, but it helped to get my creative juices flowing to do some of my own. I love all the pop-up elements, I was so excited to have those in there. I thought if I put in writing all the wonderful things I love about my mom and things I love to do with her she could refer back if she ever wonders how good of a mother she is. And she is one of the best. A real keeper. It was a lot of fun to do. Another craft to come next week but tomorrow I am off to Hawaii so no more posts until then.