Getting Mother’s Day on Track

For the last three Mother’s Days I bought Sandy cards and gifts on the boy’s behalf, but this year I wanted the boys to begin participating in this mother honoring holiday. From their prospective, I imagined what they would select to give her if they more fully understood the holiday and its meaning. The activity they share most with Mommy at this stage is building train layouts, so they would probably choose to give her more GeoTrax to increase her design options. I searched the city for extra track pieces with no success, so on Thursday evening when she left for an OMOM’s meeting, the boys and I sneaked off for Evansville. We found just what we were looking for at Toys-R-Us and raced back to town just as she returned home. Sure, flowers and jewelry would have been more traditional, but she couldn’t have enjoyed those with her boys.