Mother's Day

These are the gifts I got for Mother's Day this year.  Don is always so good to me and he knows I love flowers even though I say that they are a waste of money it still is so nice to get them.  He picked them up on Saturday and hid them somewhere so that the boys could give them to me on Sunday.  Cayden made the orange paper/sticker card and wrote me nice card.  He also made the lovely  bead bracelet that is just a bit too big.  The only bummer thing about that day was that the YM president called a meeting that morning at 9:30 before church.  Seriously!  I was not happy about that and the ding dong probably got an earful from his own wife about it.  Don didn't get back to pick us up for church and he had the car seat but as I detest being late we got in the car, buckeld Kyle between Caleb and Cayden with their arms across him, said a prayer and then drove very slowly and very carefully to church.  I will deny this if ever asked about it.  Church was not such a guilt inflicting event like it usually is because the speakers did not go off about all the things that mothers should be doing.  I usually think that the speakers Basically give a list of things that if your not doing all of or not doing well enough then you suck. Or even if you are doing those things or atleast trying then you should have this perfect and lovely family.  Ummm not so much.   I know that technically that is not true but that is how I feel about it.  After church, I got a lovely nap and Don and the boys made me yummy chicken and potatoes.  Don's other gift to me was a giftcard to the spa in Mesquite along with a note that he would either drive me up and back or get me room because I always say that after I get a massage or spend the day the spa I don't want to have drive home after all that relaxing.  I really really want to use that gift card SOON. 
As far as the other mother's go in our lives I can't say how much they mean to me and our family.  My mom is such a good listener and really tries not to tell me what to do or what I should have done when I call her about things.  She sometimes offers suggestions but she really seems to just seems to want to listen which is really why I am calling her in the first place.  She is so good to my kids and to my husband and I really love her.  Don's mom helps our family so much in so many ways.  She is always willing to watch the boys when we need her to and her house has become a second home to Connor.  She helps with their diabetes and wants to be at all their events even though I forget to tell her sometimes.  She raised a loving and very unselfish son who loves his family so even if if there were nothing else she ever did, that alone would be enough. Without him I would not have had the opportunity to be a mother.
We love our Mawmaw and Grandma Adams too and recognize the importance of them being in our lives and that our children are so lucky to know great-grandmas like them. 
On Mother's Day I do try and think about other mother's like Mary and Eve and Emma and those other mothers in the scriptures, some of who are unnamed.  Also mothers like Marjorie Hinkley and Julie B Beck.  Even mothers who have never had children like Sheri Dew and Cody's drama teacher Kenna Dalley.  Each of these women are great examples to me and one day I hope to be able to tell them that.  They individually have traits and qualities that I would like to make part of me and my mothering.
Mothering is the hardest job on the planet but makes the world go round.