First of all... happy belated Mother's Day to all you wonderful moms out there!
Now that that is said, I have to be brutally honest about something... I had almost gotten to the point that I hated Mother's Day. Yep, you read that right. I usually came away from church feeling just awful about myself because I failed in comparison to all the wonderful mothers talked about during Sacrament Meeting. Then I faced uncooperative children at home. Like I said... not the best of feelings. This year I almost dreaded going to church, and really wanted to just cover up my head and stay in bed all day. I know... terrible attitude I had!
Anyway... as it turned out, yesterday was a wonderful day. Great talks and lessons, cooperative and even appreciative children! Sweet Kayti made me both lunch and dinner. Barry and the kids got me a book that I have been wanting, then let me stay in bed all afternoon and read! The kids even made me a very special book... one filled with wonderful pictures and words of love from them.
I love being a mom. It's really all that I ever wanted to be when I grew up. I had always wanted 6 kids... and got made fun of in high school for sharing that with others. When Barry and I got married and started having kids, I still wanted 6, he wanted less. I remember going to the temple once when I was pregnant with Josh, and praying about how many kids we should have. I left that day knowing that we would have 4 - 2 girls and 2 boys. They are the best thing that I have ever done with my life, and I love each of them dearly. They bring me the greatest joy, the deepest sorrow, the most aggravation, and wonderful contentment.
I can't speak about mothers without mentioning 2 other wonderful women... both my own mother and my mother-in-law. I love and appreciate them both very much. Thank you, both, for being such wonderful examples not only to me, but to my children as well.
Hope everyone else had a great day! And thanks, Barry and kiddos for making my day great!
3 comments:
Glad to hear your day got better. We all have Mother's Days like that.
I always disliked when the speakers would go on and on and on about how perfect their Mom's were and shared stories about how their moms cleaned the toilet bowl with a Q-tip, never raised their voices, grew their own food, canned it and cooked from scratch every night, raised sheep, sheered them, spun the wool, made the thread and wove it into cloth and sewed all their clothes.
Get real.
Real Moms are great because they make mistakes and keep plugging along and do the best they can no matter what and manage to not kill their offspring.
I'm so glad you had a nice day. Happy Mother's Day! And how nice to read all afternoon. Ahhhh.
haha.. I love Mom's comment.. it's so true! Glad you had a great Mother's Day!
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