Mother’s Day was wonderful! On Saturday, I talked to my parents and it was decided that since my mom hasn’t been feeling 100% lately, we would forgo a big family dinner this time and celebrate on our own. I got my mom a cute felted wool pot holder,? and had a visit with her on Friday afternoon.
Saturday night, Aaron took me out for late late dinner and we shut the taco place down just sitting in a booth catching up on life. We weren’t ready to be home yet and ended up sitting in the car in a parking lot talking another hour after, just to debrief since we’ve been working opposite shifts lately, it feels like. I love a good one on one, and Aaron’s undivided attention is a much cherished podium level prize.
On Sunday, Sloane crawled into my bed and practiced reading the talk she wrote.
6 months ago, she asked bishop if primary children can sieak in church. He looked it up and said yes. Sloane set to work on what she wanted to share. This was very important to her and age kept a note in my phone for weeks and bvweeks with screenshots of quotes from the gospel library app and examples she felt prompted to include. She started to hand write her thoughts in a journal, but reading it back with her perfectly imperfect spelling and handwriting presented the challenge of not being able to read it back out loud smoothly. Dyslexia and dysgraphia are hard. Her intentions were so pure though. I typed it word for word into a word document with large font and even wrote out phonetically a few of the tricky words from her quotes. Over the last 2 weeks, she practiced reading and made changes.
She was so nervous but this is something she has been wanting to do for many months and we are so proud her for her prayerful obedience to follow a prompting. She was asked to speak about “what it means to be a Chikd of God.” She shared “If we are all Children of God, then we are all brothers and sisters and we should treat everyone like family.” She talked about the struggles of learning to be a peacemaker and examples of showing family love. It was so wholesome and from her heart.
Speaking of family love, Esme made me a beautiful little book card about how I am gee forever mom and she is lucky because I chose her. It made me ugly cry.
I got a couple emails from a sister and elder with Mother’s Day wishes for mama Meg. I will champion these young brave people forever. Love them so much and Hurrah for Israel.
We called Lynda and talked to her today for a bit. I miss her!
I got my Mother’s Day FaceTime with Jamine Willardson, who also ugly cried reading Esme’s card. It was beyond precious. My missionary Mother’s Day call happened during Quincy’s regular Sunday night pday call, but I did get a solid hour to talk with just her and I loved that.
A fun suprise, Noah Hill showed up at our door tonight with flowers for me from Ryan, who made arrangements with him last week to make a special delivery. I had a 1am mother’s day text from him in Beijing, but flowers are next level. My mother heart could just burst.
Reese and Logan are house/doggo sitting this week for friends but spent the evening with us and gave me such a thoughtful gift: a karaoke top 100 music history Trivia game that I can’t WAIT to destroy them at. Muahahaha! Logan and Reese miiight give me a run for my money though. They are both experts in this field. It makes a mother so proud 😂. Sitting with my daughter and mother in relief society was a real treat today!
I love Mother’s Day. I love my calling as a Mother.
House full of people to love, hallelujah.
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