Mother's Day!

Nicaragua knows how to celebrate Mother's Day much better than what we do in the US. I mean to think that we give an entire Sunday to the celebration of moms is great, but then when you compare it to the entire week long celebration that is put on here. . . it looks pathetic! Sorry mom, I love you!

So Mother's Day is May 30th. But last Sunday (the 26th) we celebrated in the church in Managua. The kids sang a cute little song, and then all of us "moms" got little clutches and the gift bag was almost as great of a present!

 

awesome, right! So Day 1 of Mother's Day, complete.

 

The next day, Monday, Day 2 of Mothers Day was the activity in the school. So well put together, I really enjoyed it! Plus the decorations were beautiful.

 

 

Don't you agree? Gorgeous! And the students made all those flowers and everything :) There were about 10 acts (like dances, or students singing, reciting poems etc. and some games) and I received numerous cards and gifts from all my girls.

 

Now we have to jump to Thursday, Day 3 of Mothers Day, and the ACTUAL Mother's Day. So because this day is a federal holiday. . . there's no school. You know that's just how important it is. So we slept in, and ate some tasty food, the power was out all afternoon because of the massive monsooning rains we had so that kept everyone inside and in the dark, but overall it was a pretty nice day.

 

Mother's Day 4: Devotions celebration! This was just our own personal celebration of Mothers day on Friday night. The kids sang us another song, (us being Yicza, Vanessa, Alejandra, Lily and I) and the big girls made us monogramed towels! How cool is that! I am one blessed mama.

 

 

AND, I got some b.e.a.u.t.i.f.u.l roses! :) they make my entire room smell wonderful.

 

 

So that sounds like quite a week of celebrations huh. . . but wait, it's not over yet! We still have one more church celebration!

 

Mother's Day, Day 5:

 

 

 That Sunday we celebrated again at our other church in Masatepe. The service included lots of fun tributes (songs, dramas etc.) to moms too.

Anyways, it was a great way to celebrate the week.  Maybe later I will write about the emotional side of it all, but as for now, I will leave you with just the fun of this post :)