Happy Mother's Day

This is just a silly picture of our first sunburn of the year, YAY! But I think I've realized this Mother's Day how much it really isn't for mothers. Well, it is, and it's great to get a day-off from cooking and the opportunity to sleep in or take a nap (believe me, you have no idea how wonderful that is!), but let me explain. I think that while the rest of the world knows about us and loves us, they really remember on Mother's Day and devote talks about us in church, and crafts for us in school. But we already know we ROCK, right? We see it everyday as we are watching our children grow and learn, in every song we sing, and story we tell, and "present" our three year old brings us, and the chubby baby hand on our face that is covered with sticky goo. We KNOW we are doing the work that we are supposed to be doing and we get small rewards everyday for it. But I think Mother's Day is a good reminder for all the other people in our life- to just remember and to realize just how awesome a work it really is. I hope this makes sense, I'm not trying to promote my greatness or anything like that, but I really feel blessed that I am a Mother to these beautiful girls and I try to live everyday to deserve all their love and the blessings that come with this adventure.

Lily's words:
What is a mother's job? "To clean the dish, and the washer, and drink water, and clean the whole house, and clean up my room with me, and play games with me, and make watermelon, and read a book, and make right choices, and clean with the vacuum."