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I hope everyone had a very happy Mother’s Day yesterday. I sure did. I’m at a very interesting stage in motherhood I think. I still have little ones, but I also have older ones who can pitch in and do more to surprise me on their own. Then I still get the cute little homemade cards, but I also get store bought gifts.
I surprisingly managed to sleep in until almost 10 in the morning. Don’t ask me how or why that happened because well sleeping until 9 is usually like heaven these days. And that really only happens after I had a rough night with a sick kid or something and my husband decides to let me sleep in, so it’s not really like extra sleep, just grabbing the sleep I missed out on the night before.
When I got up I had breakfast made for me by my teenager. Scrambled eggs, bacon, toast, and an English muffin with a glass of chocolate milk. Then I got the gifts. Some coloring pages from all the kids, including my 2 year old. A card my son made in school and a cute tea cup cut out with a poem written on it and a tea bag inside. My middle daughter gave me a plant she planted at school and my oldest gave me a frog wind chime. Which I actually had to laugh about because I had seen this Peace Frogs wind chime that I was going to share on my oldest daughter’s FB wall as a suggestion for a Mother’s Day present. Ultimately I decided not to because it was more than I wanted her spending on me anyways. She didn’t get me the Peace Frogs one, but the one she got was cute and I actually like it better. I just thought it was funny that she knew me well enough to know I would like that despite the fact that I have no wind chimes.
My husband had to work so he left, but was home in time to cook me dinner. Manicotti. He also got me flowers and a card.
I played outside with the kids and just really got to enjoy them without having to worry about getting other stuff done. I just let all of the other stuff go and didn’t let it bother me.
It is different than Mother’s Days past. In the beginning I had this vision of sort of a day off from parenting. Silly and naive, I know. Mother’s Day isn’t about getting a day off. Because there are no days off when you’re a mother. No matter how old your kids get you will always worry about them and you will always love them and you will always parent them. Mother’s Day is a celebration of motherhood. And it’s for us all.
While it’s nice to have a few of the things you do as a mom taken off your plate for the day, that’s not what it’s all about. While it’s nice for the people in your life to acknowledge the things you do to make their life a little easier that’s not what it’s about either. It’s not even about the gifts or the handmade cards. It’s about the joys that motherhood brings and about embracing those joys. That was the best gift of all. Getting to enjoy my children and celebrate our family.
But the not having to cook or wash dishes and all of those homemade gifts and even the wind chime are just extra special bonuses and physical reminders of just how much my kids love me and how well they know me. That’s pretty darn special.
How was your Mother’s Day?
