This Mother's Day was especially meaningful.
Through her struggle to fight breast cancer, I've seen my mom in a whole new light. She is the most brave, courageous, loving, generous, gracious, caring and encouraging person I've ever met. She's facing one of the scariest times of her life, and yet her character hasn't changed a bit. In fact, this struggle (as so often is the case) has seemed to make all of the things I love about her even stronger. Her faith is amazing, and she has the unbelievable ability to stay light and positive through it all.
I'm so thankful for her example. I truly hope that I can be half of the mom she is and has been. If I can even reach 50% of who she is, I will be above average.
Thanks for your example, Mom - both to me and to my girls. Thanks for staying strong in your faith and true to your character. I arise and call you BLESSED!
My Beautiful Mom, Faith, Bella and me on Mother's Day.
Also, on this Mother's Day post, on a much more hilarious note, I wanted to share the best part of the day for me, personally.
(Keep in mind as you read this, that we had a great Mother's Day sermon at church about building moms up, encouraging them, praising them, thanking them etc.)
As I was tucking in Faith last night, she was being especially goofy and funny. As I was leaving her room she said,
"Mommy, you're the best mommy in the whole world! I love you! Oh, and I learned at church today that I need to praise you, so here ya go:"
Then she stood up on her bed, raised her hands in the air and began to sing,
"It makes me want to shout, Hallelujah, Thank You Mommy, For all the good things, You do for me, I really love you, And I want to, Give you all the praise!" (Do you recognize the tune? It's a fairly new song, that we've been singing in church . . . I think it's called "When I Think about the Lord").
I was already laughing my buns off, and then she went into:
"Mommy loves the little children, All the Children of the world . . . . ." You know the rest.
Then came:
"Mommy loves me this I know, For my Daddy tells me so . . . "
I was laughing so hard, I had tears rolling down my face. That girl is hilarious! She sang these crazy songs for about 15 minutes . . . some in a very syncopated, rhythmic way . . . adding her own drum, bass and trumpet parts. She even added vibrato. The girl is a truly talented singer, and musician. I wish I could have recorded it to play back on the "not so nice" days that I need a little pick me up. I'm just glad that Mike was present to hear the songs first hand. We both had a good laugh out of it.
I don't think I'll ever hear one of those songs the same again. If you see me giggling in church when we're singing "When I Think About the Lord", now you'll know why.
