Site Title

Memorable moments from mother's day 2012:

Emma brought me a delicious breakfast of grape nuts brought in on the red "You are special today" plate (thought up and executed all on her own, although the plate is tricky for even me to get out!)  That girl knows how to celebrate.  
My favorite part of her present was the back of the "all about mom" sheet that said:  
My mom is as pretty as a:  tulip
She is as sweet as a:  treet
She is as smart as:  my dad
And she is as special as:  me.

Nate says to Carter, "Hey Carter!  It's mothers day!  Do you have something you want to tell mom?"  and Carter leans over and says, "Hey mom!  It's mother's day!" 

Everyone helped make the dinner that I had planned (and that they hated) and grilled cheese (that they loved) in true [nice-mom that I am usually not] fashion.  Like my mom did all my growing up years.  Yeah, she's amazing like that.

Zach gave me a card he made at school.  It said, "Dear Mom, Happy Mother's day.  Hope you have a good one.  Love, Zachary Adams."   When he gave it to me, he said, "I made it brief, since I had already made you another one [at church]."   

Speaking of which, at church the primary kids made cupcake wrapper corsages.  So cute.  And it's easy to wear 3 when clusters of flowers are so fashionable.  :)

And Nate helped everyone sit still and took multiple pictures to get me my mother's day wish of a picture of me and the kiddos.  

It was a perfectly wonderful day!

And, I kept thinking about my own mom and that quote from conference where Pres. Monson's daughter talked about her parents:  

Ann Dibb, the Monsons’ daughter, says that to this day, when she walks in the front door of the house where she was raised, her father will say, “Oh, look who’s here. And aren’t we glad, and isn’t she beautiful?” She goes on to say: “My parents always give me some compliment; it doesn’t matter what I look like or what I’ve been doing. … When I go and visit my parents, I know I am loved, I am complimented, I am made welcome, I am home.” 

My mom is exactly the same way!  It is one of the things (in a list that's too long to type) that I love most about her.   And I've told her before, but I'll say it again: any success I have as a mother is because of her example!