Of moms and muffins
CHERYL SCHWEIZER | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 8 years, 10 months AGO
Courtesy photo The Peninsula Elementary gym was filled with moms and grandmas and aunts and kids Thursday as the students honored their moms at ‘Muffins with Mom.’
Courtesy photo Moms and kids, grandmas and brothers and sisters, posed for pictures at the photo booth at ‘Muffins with Mom’ at Peninsula Elementary Thursday.
Senior Reporter Cheryl Schweizer is a journalist with more than 30 years of experience serving small communities in the Pacific Northwest. She began her post-high-school education at Treasure Valley Community College and enerned her journalism degree at Oregon State University. After working for multiple publications, she has settled down at the Columbia Basin Herald and has been a staple of the newsroom for more than a decade. Schweizer’s dedication to her communities and profession has earned her the nickname “The Baroness of Bylines.” She covers a variety of beats including health, business and various municipalities. | May 16, 2017 3:00 AM
MOSES LAKE — Peninsula Elementary students honored their moms – and grandmas and aunts and big sisters – with muffins, skits, prizes and gifts Thursday morning.
The first-ever “Muffins with Mom” was the idea of the school’s student council, said Peninsula principal Sydney Richins. The student council “suggested we hold the event in honor of Mother’s Day.”
Moms (and grandmas and aunts) got muffins, of course, and juice, and there were activities for kids and moms to work on together at every table. (Moms got to take those home.) The Peninsula gym was packed with Peninsula students and their moms (or grandmas or aunts) and in some cases their brothers and sisters. “We served over 364 guests,” Richins said.
Student council members presented a skit to recognize moms, and there were drawings for prizes (including pedicures, manicures and facials, Richins said) donated by local businesses.
Moms and kids also had a chance to get their pictures taken together in the photo booth.
The kids had experience with throwing a big get-together for their parents, inviting their dads (and grandpas and uncles) in for “Doughnuts with Dad” earlier in the school year.
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