My Mother's Day in Pictures (and words)

The other day at Walmart, I stopped by the cards to get cards for the moms in our family. As I stopped in front of the display, I said to myself (yes, to myself), "OK, Mother's Day cards..." David, who had previously not been paying attention, perked up & started looking. He picked this up, asked me what it said (that curly font was throwing him off), then went around & put it in the basket.

About bedtime last night, he brought me the card and asked, "When should I give you your Mother's Day card?" "How about tomorrow, on Mother's Day," I said. "Did you sign your name on the card?" oops... I thought it was going to be an easy task, but at 11pm, I finally told him I was going to bed. He was working to get it perfect. This is what I found in my chair this morning:

In case you can't read it, it says,
"I (heart) my Mom
From David
I'm from Texas"

Then Dad presented me with
this certificate this morning:

My boy eating eggs for breakfast this morning:

My girls playing happily together:

My rose, Maggie, was covered with beautiful, fragrant blooms today!

My official Mother's Day picture. Wouldn't be right if at least one kid wasn't crying! : )

Dad took these next two...
The wildflowers were beautiful today, but the overcast day made it hard to photograph them. My favorite, Indian Blankets, are starting to pop up everywhere! I love these!

And here's where we ended up this afternoon! And guess what will be hanging up in my chicken coop tomorrow... HEE HEE!!!! (birthday money in action!)

My hollyhock's first bloom!!! I've been waiting years for this!!!

No, it's not Black Hollyhock, Blue Larkspur... but they sure are pretty together nonetheless.

Happy Mother's Day!

I am so blessed that I get to be called Mom, Mama, Mommy, MomMom, Mother and Ma! I'm excited that next year there will be another one finding (his) voice in the noise. My heart goes out to those who have lost their little noise makers or were never able to have them in the first place.

I am so blessed that I had a wonderful Momma who was an amazing woman and a great example of all of the fruits of the Spirit that I'm now teaching to David: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. I miss her very much on this first Mother's Day without her.

feeding babies & Mother's Day

7:15 p.m. - I just sat down to feed Rebekah. Computer stuff is one thing I can do while breastfeeding... just slower typing one handed. Anyway, Elizabeth came in & sat down beside me. She piled her blanket into her lap and laid her stuffed dog on it. Then she said, "Mama feeding Baby Bekah. I feeding dog," and she pulled the little puppy to her chest.

I think I just got the best Mother's Day gift. My little girl wants to be like me! : ) snif, snif...

I got other gifts today, too! Since Dad has to work tomorrow, he took me out to lunch today at one of my favorite places - Rosa's Tortillia Factory. Another gift came from MawMaw - she kept David & Elizabeth while we went out! When she offered she said, "unless you want to take them with you for Mother's Day." I quickly responded, "Nah... I have lunch with them every day!" : )

We also went to James Avery to get Rebekah's charm for my charm bracelet. They were so packed (my number was 25 & they were now serving 93)! I didn't want to spend all day waiting, so we'll just get it another day. I'm sure I would have had to leave my bracelet for soldiering after waiting to be helped, so we'd have to have gone back anyway.

And we also did something we hadn't done in a while... a plant heist. No, it was nothing illegal. More like an intervention... or a rescue! We collected some beautiful native plants like this:

Purple Skullcap

Prairie Verbena

and saved them from being scraped away to build this:

Large cookie cutter houses
too close to each other
with imported landscaping, if any

Ah... just like old times... almost. Can you find Dad in the last photo above?

Then I got more presents at home: Rebekah went to sleep without hours of crying and David happily cleaned up his Lego's and went to bed! Peaceful bedtime; a gift indeed!

Happy Mother's Day!!!!!!

First off, I would like to say HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY to my Momma and to my mother-in-law, Beth!

Now... I should be embarrassed to post this photo, which I just knew was going to look terrible. But when I saw it, all I could do was laugh! And it's still cracking me up! (though I was not laughing in the photo!) This was the first attempt at this year's Mother's Day photo. I think the part that gets me the most is the expression David & I are sharing. We weren't looking at each other and both ended up with exactly the same look of torture! I guess laughing about it is better than the alternative...


On a more pleasant note, David made this beautiful butterfly for me in Sunday School this morning. (And, by the way, he was so excited to go to his class this morning!!!)

He also planted seeds in a styrofoam cup last week that were starting to sprout. "Flowers for Mom."

Since the first photo went awry, I snapped a couple in the car while Dad was in Lowe's this afternoon, and was much happier with their turn out.

This evening, we spent a little time at the North Place and I got this cute "together" photo:

And finally got the dreamed of Mother's Day photo for myself. Oh, how I love my children & love being their Mom!

I just discovered that if I got paid for being a Mom, this would be my yearly salary:

Try out Salary.com's Mom Salary Wizard to see what you ought to be paid! (I'd be interested to see how much our friends who have 7 kids should be making!!!)

Happy Mother's Day 2007

Happy Mother's Day to every Mom that reads this!

Background photo by My Brother.

UPDATE: Here's a picture of my Momma (aka Grandma) sporting her lovely Mother's Day corsage.

Below, apparently my photographer was more interested in the kids than me! I guess that's ok, though, since she is their Great-Grandmother!

There's a picture of me & my Little Ladybug at the bottom. This was, of course, Elizabeth's first Mother's Day!