However, I do love mother's day. But it's the little things. Really. I think I will cry when the kids are too old to make homemade presents and any cards I get say "Hallmark" or "American Greetings" on the back. Here's some of the little highlights that made my day.
- Zach bringing up in conversation every day for the past two weeks, the fact that I am going to LOVE the present he made for me, and I would beg and beg him to tell me, but he did a really good job keeping it a secret.
-The kids waking me up at 6:00 this morning because they couldn't wait a minute longer. Believe it or not, this was a highlight as their excitement was infectious. Ideally if I had any say, (which, I don't) I'd sleep in til like 10 or so, be really super lazy, but I didn't really have a choice and since church is at 8:00 sleeping in on Sunday isn't really an option anyway.
- Finding a homemade card hidden in Zach's underwear drawer a couple weeks ago. (It totally cracks me up that he thought that was a good hiding place.)
- Madison's Happy Mother's Day banner she made.
-Cinnamon rolls and eggs waiting for me when I came down to breakfast.
- Tickets to see Les Mis in London from "Christopher"
- And I really really loved the presents they made at school. I got a cute flowerpot from Zach that he decorated with bugs and it says "Thanks for helping me grow" and it has one of those pens turned into a daisy, and a picture of him. Both he and Madison had one of those "fill in the blank" things that they filled in about me.They were a little different, but the idea was the same. They both had a line which read, "My mom is ____years old." they both got that right. My favorite part of Madison's is when she said that I weigh 48 pounds. How did she know? And Zach said I was "as pretty as a star". Isn't that seriously the sweetest thing? Madison had another card she worked on at school, as well as other pictures she made for me, and Nick wrote me a really sweet poem. He also made me a scarf that I wore to church today. I got compliments.
-John being the thoughtful guy that he is flew my mom down with some of his frequent flyer miles (he's been racking them up lately) just for the weekend. Then he kicked us out the door to do some shopping while he cleaned and did laundry and took care of the kids. It was nice to spend some time together, and mother's day isn't such a big deal where she's from, so it was a treat for her. Since my mom reads this blog, out of respect for my mother on this day, I wouldn't post a picture of her because she generally hates them all, but since I seem to be scanning anything that will hold still long enough, I found one she probably won't object to. It's one of my favorites.
-But always, always, on mother's day, I am renewed with the desire to both appreciate my own mother more, but also to be the person I see in the eyes of the ones I love the most. To be "The best mommy in the whole world" as one of my cards so eloquently put. I'm not fishing here, but I always wonder if they look at me through rose colored glasses, but I like the way I look in those glasses, and I want to be that person they see, and today at least, I am trying.
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