Mother's Day

Just wanted to express gratitude here for my wonderful mother, and my mother-in-law.  I am so lucky to have two such amazing role models to look up to.  Nobody could have two greater ladies in their life than they.

My kids and my husband treated me to a WONDERFUL Mother's Day. I thought last year was great, but this year they beat that. They gave me cards, sweet notes, presents, and did a treasure hunt and pin the tail on the zebra game to celebrate the day with me.

The notes they wrote were so cute, I had to scan them in so that I would always be able to keep them and remember.

Emalyn wrote these first two.

It's kind of hard to read that poem in the one above, so here's what it says:

While the moonbeam is glowing,
and the flowers are blooming,
You are shining,
and so am I.

 Tyler wrote this next one:

Krysta colored this last one for me.  She says it's a flower in space.

Sometimes (well, lately, alot) I feel like I'm not doing a very good job at being a parent.  I make a lot of mistakes.  Lately, it feels to me like my kids think I'm out to get them, and that I enjoy making them suffer.  I was talking to my mom about this, and she opened my eyes.  She helped me get a better perspective on things.  That things aren't really that bad.  That just because my kids act like they feel that way, doesn't necessarily mean that they really feel that way or that things really are that way.  And today, I just felt so loved.  Mother's Day can be a hard day, for a variety of reasons.  For one of the first times in my life (sad to say) I"m really and truly grateful for mother's day.  It was a BLAST today.