Mom Skills

When I was little, I told Mom I knew she wasn't very old. She asked how I knew that, and I said "because you don't have any skills, Mom." She said "skills?!"  and I clarified for her, "yeah, you know like Grandma has cooking skills, and sewing skills and ....."

She's a few years older now, but the cooking skills have not come. Here are the GF Shamrock cookies she made for Bryce to take to his Spring Party.

Aaaaand here are the Shamrock cookies Jax's Mom made for our party. #skillz

I will say, when it comes to party planning, my mom has MAD skills! Since my fall party was extremely lame, I begged her to please step up. She decided to construct and run a Rube Goldberg challenge for my entire class! Mom is not known for moderation when it comes to party planning, so she had my best buds over for a trial run last week.

We loved it!

Of course, being the brilliant and creative boys that we are, we created a masterpiece.

Then we went outside to play with everybody's favorite spaz dog :) I can't tell if my friends love Rowan more, or if he loves them more, but he's always the center of the fun!

Today was the big day! Mom lugged in four boxes full of random things. We split into four teams and got to work building a Rube Goldberg device that would tip the Leprechaun's gold out of his basket.

Charlie's team was fast! Unfortunately their device worked every time the class wasn't watching and none of the times we gathered around to watch!

Jax's team worked very slowly. Eventually Mrs. Santelik just took over.

My team worked at a good pace AND made an awesome machine.

Poor Jax. He didn't give up though!

One of Charlie's many demos.

We kept adding on to our machine after each demo. We didn't even want to stop for snacks!

Obviously I had a fantastic team.

I mean... look what we built!

and of course, Falcon was able to get that gold!

Mrs. Hinkle's cookies were a huge hit!

Here's Brady's team. They did pretty well!

Thanks Mom, for the best party yet. Not every Mom has traditional skills and we're okay with that!