Mom's Day

So grateful for a wonderful Mother who I look up to and admire in every way. She is truly an inspiration and example to me on a daily basis. I love her enthusiasm, her love of life, her kindness, her spontaneity, her fun and crazy side (trench coat on halloween :o), her faithand testimony...the list could go on and on. I just wanted to take a minute to tell her that I love her and think she is the greatest. I truly hope to someday be 1/2 the woman and mother she is.

I also feel so blessed to have such an amazing Mother-in-law. Again, another woman who I respect and admire SO much! She is strong in every sense of the word and teaches me by how she lives her life. I am grateful to be surrounded by such incredible women, Mom's, sisters, Grandma's, in-laws as well as incredible friends who are wonderful mother's.

Elder Ballard recently shared a fabulous quote that I want to work on applying more consistently in my life. “The biggest mistake I made [as a parent] is the one that most of us make. … I did not live in the moment enough. This is particularly clear now that the moment is gone, captured only in photographs. There is one picture of [my three children] sitting in the grass on a quilt in the shadow of the swing set on a summer day, ages six, four, and one. And I wish I could remember what we ate, and what we talked about, and how they sounded, and how they looked when they slept that night. I wish I had not been in such a hurry to get on to the next thing: dinner, bath, book, bed. I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and the getting it done a little less” (Anna Quindlen, Loud and Clear [2004], 10–11).

Happy Mother's Day, I hope it is a wonderful one.