Mother's Day 2010: You can kind of see my children's personalities by how they have handled Mother's Day this year.
My oldest daughter, very kind and sweet, gave me a card with a water color of a beautiful flower she had painted herself. It was still wet--she is very last minute like me but has twice the talent--thankfully for her. She just had a very busy social-life-type weekend is all. Also, she sacrificed a bag of her own chocolates to give me, which I recognize as one of the higher manifestations of true love. It was dark chocolate.
My oldest son came stumbling into the kitchen this morning with hair all sticky-up and thrust a 5 dollar bill at me and said: "Happy Mother's Day!" Then later he found a wrinkled up Penney's ad in the car and upped it to $30 if I wanted to pick something off the jewelry page in that price range. That must come from me too--though something in my memory says maybe his Dad has done that before...
My youngest daughter had a Hallmark card all signed and sealed -- with a pretty bow even. She had purchased it well ahead of time with her own money. She even added a very formal " May God bless you" in it-- which nearly makes me weep at the sweetness of it.
My 10-year-old boy was in the shower while all of this was going on. I guess it was a "Mother's Day" shower---good enough! I will count my blessings!
The little one was holding a pretty orange flower and cooing and smiling all over it. Upon coaxing he managed to hand it over to me for about 2 seconds. He liked the flower. It was very sad when its head popped off and he wasn't allowed to eat it.
They all are so unique and wonderful and I'm still puzzling why God would entrust them all to me. Doesn't He realize I don't have a clue? Anyway..their unique and ever so sweet ways of making me feel special today have blessed me beyond measure. I'm thankful I get to spend my days with them. Lord, equip me to guide them to You!
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