I love Mother's Day. I have always loved Mother's Day and was quite surprised when I heard that others didn't. When I was young I loved singing the Primary songs about Mothers and listening to people talk about Mothers in church. I love my mother and always enjoyed celebrating her on Mother's Day.
When I married I was thankful that I got another wonderful Mother. I had heard friends talk about their mother in laws and was glad the only thing I could say about mine was how good she was. I feel blessed to have wonderful mothers who taught us the right things in life.
I was thrilled when I became a Mother and Mother's Day changed a little for me....it just got better! I still enjoyed celebrating our mom's but it was also fun to celebrate the fact that I was a Mother. I never remember feeling or thinking I wasn't good enough. I just thought about how much I loved being a mom and how much I loved my children. Mother's Day changed again as my kids started to marry. I had more children that I loved and adored...it just got better!
As the grands started to come Mother's Day changed again. It is even better than it was. I still love celebrating our mom's, and I still love celebrating me being a mom, but I really love celebrating my girls that are mom's. I admire my girls so much. They are all such wonderful mom's. So much better than I ever was. That doesn't make me feel bad like I should have been better it makes me happy that they are better. Larry and I mentioned many times over the years that we just hope our kids do better than us and that pattern continues to happen. I think we did pretty good because we have great kids.
This year instead of posting on Facebook how much I loved being a mom I posted this:
"Happy Mothers Day to us ALL! We have all been influenced by wonderful Mothers!" ♥
Every one of us has a mother that took care of us and nurtured us. That is worth celebrating! Being a mom is a lot of work. It's that hardest job I think there is and at the same time the most rewarding. I have said "being a mom has brought out the worst in me but it has also brought out the best in me." I love celebrating all women on this day....every women leaves her mark!
Traditionally Larry's mom has pizza and everyone congregates to her back yard and visits with each other. I love traditions and I have always loved doing this. However, this year mom wasn't feeling good and decided it would be too much work to have everyone over. I know that in time things change and so do traditions. We decided to have pizza at our house with our family. I think the kids all enjoyed it and I did too. However, I really missed seeing and visiting with some of our extended family. When we found out that mom wasn't going to have everyone over Larry and I decided to visit our mom's on Saturday. That way we would be home when our kids came. I prefer visiting our Mom's on Mother's Day but this year this worked out the best. My mom was having my sister's family over for dinner anyway and by going a day early we wouldn't be interrupting. I know that some of Larry's siblings would still stop by his mom's so she would still get her visits.
When we got home from visiting our mom's on Saturday I was surprised to see a "sweet" bouquet for me that Cindee had brought over. What a kind, thoughtful person Cindee is. The bouquet was edible. The flowers were cupcakes and the picks were cookies. My grands enjoyed eating my bouquet...I enjoyed watching them.
This year I told the kids I only wanted to take some pictures of all the grands together and also some of them. That's all I wanted. Some might have forgot and might not have been thrilled but were gracious enough to cooperate anyway.
Later in the evening we played Head's Up~7 Up which was pretty fun. I love when the grands want to play games with everyone and seeing everyone get involved. Pretty much makes my heart want to explode with happiness. The sister missionaries stopped by later. They brought gifts.....so sweet of them.
I had a few nice surprises today even though taking pictures would have been enough. I received many sweet texts which always make me smile and maybe even shed a tear or two. I still love homemade cards and received a few. Larry surprised me with a nice watch. I also got a cute plaque that I hung immediately in my kitchen, some bath bombs that look like an ice cream sundae, and chocolate. I loved and appreciated all the thoughtful gifts. I made a card for each of my girls and put a Movie gift card in it for them to enjoy a date with their hubby. Part of that gift included us watching the kids while they went out. Giving gifts to my girls is fun for me....at this point I think the focus should be on them. Young mom's work the hardest!
Oh....Justin told me that he spoke in Sacrament Meeting and that he probably should have invited me. He said it's probably good that he didn't though because I would have just cried. (I'm sure he got that right) When he mentioned it I didn't even think about him saying anything about me. It didn't cross my mind at all. I just thought it wasn't fair that Natalie had to sit by herself on Mother's Day but at least she would be acknowledged in his talk.
Mom's do so much. Mom's seldom get a day off and work around the clock 24/7 regardless of what day it is. I remember enjoying going to the hospital because it was kind of like a day off. ☺ I didn't have to cook or clean or wipe noses or any other momma duty.☺ Relaxing is something that comes with time.....I get to more often now that my kids are older. So enjoy the hustle and bustle because it will pass.....so quickly. I'm so thankful for all my memories and the season's of life. They are all so good and I'm glad that I have enjoyed each one while I was experiencing it.
