Happy Mother's Day 2010...

My Children and I on Mother's Day, Josh, Trav, Ben, me, Jake, and Miss Meg... (and the flowers Jake made for me) When your a little girl there is one thing you play and want to be most in life a mom. You have lots of dolls and Barbie's you play with, dress up and pretend to feed, change diapers and so on.

Then there is one person you look up to and learn how to be a mom from, your mom. Today after laying in bed listening to my kids yell be quiet mom is sleeping and once again yelling to the little guys don't go into mom's room we are not ready. I like that they were trying to be secret by yelling, makes laying in bed more fun. I was thinking how my family is not prefect and as a mom I have a lot to learn still, but one thing I did prefect was have five beautiful children. I got to dress them up, feed them (and with my teenagers this tasks feels like all day long), change many, many diapers, (again finally done with this task yippee), and so on. I never knew all those years ago all the jobs and hats my mom would wear as I was looking up to her and wanting to be her. There are 8 children in my family and my mom always had us bathed, our clothes pressed and our hair done nice and neat. We didn't have a lot of money but my mom would spend hours way into the night sewing jeans and shirts that look like name brand. Our house was always very clean and well kept. For awhile I thought the reason she had all of us was to be her maids, now my kids say the same about me. I now know that in order to have nice things we all have to work together to get it done. My mom was a great cook she still is and sometimes I really miss some of her comfort foods she would make. I make them or I should say I try they just don't taste the same. Every week she would make about 10 loafs of bread, dozens of cookies and the dinner menu was planned, all to keep us feed. I loved when Christmas and Easter would come because we would get a beautiful dress she would have made for us girls. She was always taking one of us kids to one thing or another, doing laundry, cooking, cleaning up and always had time to serve in her calling giving a 100% to the Lord. Yesterday after my special breakfast of slightly over done muffins my mom called to wish me happy mother's day. I just then realized how much I missed my mom this mother;s day. I couldn't stop thinking of her and all she has done for me in my life all the gifts she has given me, and I don't mean the material ones. But the love and caring of others, the serving the Lord above all things and the always knowing who I am and what I stand for. The always do your best even if you don't what to and it's never about you it about others around you. So here's to you mom and all the things you are to me, there is so many it would take two books to write them all. Here's to you for helping me through your example be the best I can be! I lOvE YOu...