Today is Mother’s Day. As I woke this morning I got excited, thinking “Yes, today is my day. The day I get to let everyone else do my job!” The kids woke up, one by one and with Erik sleeping like a log next to me (being the least morning person between the two of us) I kind of got excited knowing he would have to be the first to get up. The one to figure out breakfast and answer all of their millions of questions!
As the kids work on getting Daddy awake, they whisper their secret plans for mommy. I had gotten the baby up and she was in our bed as well. (This is one of my favorite things about the weekends…everyone ends up in our bed in the mornings!) I am trying to act like I don’t hear them but I do and soon figure out that Daddy is getting us donuts! Yay! With this I am thinking of the rest of the day and how nice it will be to let them take care of me!
But, as time goes on, the kids lose patience so I get out of bed, change the baby and begin to answer their daily questions, asking where we are going, what we are doing and when breakfast will be. I immediately get a little discouraged because I think that I should be just lounging around right? But I move on knowing the rest of the day awaits!
After breakfast, the kids share all of their homemade gifts for me. (The best kinds of gifts by the way!) Then we all head out to my Mom’s to enjoy lunch with her and my sister’s family. Afterwards it’s off to the greenhouse to buy some flowers! I even got the lawn ornament that I have been wanting! We headed back home later, Erik grilled us dinner and we finished with a final, weekend trip to the Dairy Queen!
It really was a great day and as I sit back and think about it, I am remembering those little moments of discouragement. I get big ideas in my head of what a big and special day it should have been and with this I always get disappointed. Looking back on today, I realize I had been thinking all wrong!
Those times when Daddy just really didn’t want to change that diaper or the times when the kids didn’t care what Mom wanted to do because it wasn’t fun or the time when you realize that the kids don’t have clean underwear and the laundry wasn’t going to do itself…all day I had been thinking these are things I shouldn’t have to worry about on Mother’s Day. But I was wrong.
Mother’s Day is a special day. A day all about Mom. But that is what we are right? Moms? This is what we signed up for. As wives and mothers, they need us. Mom is always their to change the diapers, to plan fun things and to make sure the laundry is done. We take care of them. I had gone into today thinking of how they were going to take care of me when really, this day was to show just how much they need me.
Knowing that my family needs me, my husband needs me, is the best feeling in the world. That is what I live for. The most important thing in the world to me. They mean everything to me and I would give up anything for them. I don’t need an expensive gift or a special, pampering day for them the show me their love. I get to see it every day!
Happy Mother’s Day to all of you mothers out there! I hope you feel just as blessed as I do to have someone who needs you!
