Happy Mothers Day!

Dear Lord, it's such a hectic day

With little time to stop and pray

For life's been anything but calm

Since You called on me to be a mom

Running errands, matching socks Building dreams

with building blocks Cooking, cleaning, and finding shoes

And other stuff that children lose Fitting lids on bottled bugs

Wiping tears and giving hugs A stack of last weeks mail to read

So where's the quiet time I need?

Yet when I steal a minute, Lord Just at the sink or ironing board

To ask the blessings of Your grace I see then, in my small one's face

That you have blessed me

All the while And I stop to kiss That precious smile.

I always think about how lucky I am to have my boys I really don't know what I did with my life before having them. They are just everything to me. Ian's school did cards and sent home a flower. It has to be the sweetest card and the funniest thing I have read in a long time. One part of it said "my mom looks the prettiest when she dresses up to go to Walmart on Fridays when my dad gets home at 6:30" Oh it is so true I never get dressed up until Fridays and Sundays when I go to church. Well I wouldn't call it getting dressed I put on makeup and get out of my pj's.

We had a good mothers day we went to my in laws and gave Chips mom her gift and then went to my moms and ate and gave mothers day gifts. Then we came home Ian went to church and I cleaned and cooked. The only bad thing about the day was it rained and rained. I am beginning to think it will never stop. For a moment the sun came out and it was so very beautiful. It was still raining but the way the sun was shining everything was so bright. It almost seemed unreal the beauty of it. God is so good even after all the ugly rain he gave us a moment of simple beauty and that was just enough that moment.

Here is a picture of Ian's flower he gave me for Mother's Day. I am not sure what kind of flower it is but I love it!