Collage by Willa

Willa is good at celebrations. She planned her birthday party months in advance, she has been talking for weeks about the end of school party she would like to host (at our house, with her entire grade), and she whips up really fun things for Mother's Day like this collage, featuring me wearing a shirt of my favorite color, a fashion girl I made with her stencils, and a quote from one of my favorite books.

Yesterday, I also got to see all the fun stuff she is doing at school when Alan and I went to her EL open house. Then she talked us into taking her with us to drop her dad off at the airport. It was so much fun to hang out with her. She has good things to say. And we laughed belly laughs as I tried to tandem bike her back to school without making us both fall over. For activity days last night, they invited mothers and I was miraculously able to come and enjoy it. We made a book about Willa and me. It has our vital information, our favorites things, portraits we tried to draw of each other, and things we hoped the other would learn from us. Then their leader, one of my favorite people, talked about President Ballard's talk about mothers and daughters from conference. It was a joy to be there. It's a joy to be Willa's mom.