Oh that wonderful day Mother's Day, when flowers,cards and gifts end up at our feet and we are told we are wonderful and get to do whatever we want to do (at limits) for one whole day.
I woke up and they all said, I think I am sick, I think I am sick. When you are down to just two people at home to spoil you, you start thinking, does this mean I go to church alone, fix my own breakfast, make my own homemade card, find the flowers that Michael has given me for the passed 28 years:I do think they may be the same flowers recycled, but I know I get them, there was one year I checked the neighbors roses.
But no one got up but everything was there the beautiful flowers were there, the breakfast was passed, but the homemade card sat there and was a beautiful from a 15 year old as it had been from a 3 year old. The phone calls came in and the information that my gifts would come during the week, just like their mom, sometimes time ran out before the great ideas and thoughtfulness.
So it is Tuesday and all the cards and gifts are here and it is beautiful and I am full for a day or two. And then at noon, my sweet husband called and said, I am having my $2 lunch at Walmart and all the flowers are half price wouldn't you like some more flowers. Sure, that would be lovely. Now why do I want half price flowers, because this is the man who has gone from having lunch at Costco sample area to Walmart $2 lunch,he is coming up in the world and he wants to bring me more flowers in the same week. How far he has come. Hanging onto these moments for the days he drives me crazy.
Well the week speeding by fast as all weeks do these days and the phone call from my missionary still is clear in my ears, he is still serving and loving it. That is all a mother can hope for.He is still worried that I can't live without him, but I am going to let him always believe that, because as his brothers before him, he is a sweet man.
How grateful I am that I listened to a wise and great man who said I needed to be at home 23 years ago. No I will never be interviewed by Ophrah or be on Saturday Night live,or be a Rock Star,except at family parties, but I have lived the life. I am a Rock Star to Five children and now to three beautiful grandchildren. What could be better. Only I should have done is buy stock in Diet Coke!
Happy Mothers Day! Carleen you and all the moms, You done good!
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mom.... I LOVE YOU blog. really. your amazing at writing..... i totally was crying at the end of this post. sad, funny,great alll in one paragraph.
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