Mother's Day

Mother's Day was a great day at our house.  I got woke up to breakfast in bed that consisted of breakfast pizza.  Our 8 year old came up with the recipe and it was an interesting thing to start the morning off with.  The recipe consists of a cheese pizza topped with fruit that makes a happy face.  I also had a vase full of flowers that just began to bloom from our garden.  Of course what topped it all were all 4 kiddos and my wonderful husband singing Happy Mother's Day songs.    Mother’s Day makes me feel so grateful for the wonderful mothers in our lives.  My mother is a rock.  She is such an awesome lady in so many ways.  She has 5 children but has always had time for each of us.  She taught me so many things that has made me a better Mother to our children.  Chad’s Mom is also an amazing woman.  She taught my husband to be the wonderful man that he has become.  She has always been there for us for anything we could ever need.  Chad has told me many stories of his childhood full of good memories of his Mom.  We also have wonderful Grandmothers.  They are the glue that holds our extended families together.  They have taught us so many values and lessons in life. 

Today at church our Preacher’s sermon was taken from 1 Kings and was about 2 women that had babies within days of each other and one dies.  They were fighting over the live baby when King Solomon suggests that they cut the baby in half so each mother could have a part of the baby.  The real mother cries out, that the other woman can have the baby to spare her baby from harm.  The king granted her the baby but she showed that she unselfishly would have caused herself sure grief and pain but did it to save spare her child from harm.  I could not help but to relate this story to Josie’s birth mother.  She is also a Mother that we hold dear in our hearts.   See, she may not have her baby in her arms today, but she gave Josie the greatest gift.  She gave her the gift of life and then unselfishly made the choice to give her a new life. She gave her a life she could not give her herself.  I have not doubt that these choices have cause her a great amount of greif and pain but she did it for her child.  What a hard thing for any woman to do.  Even though we have never met, she will always be dear to me.  She gave us this little person that was missing from our family.  Happy Mother’s Day to our Mothers and Grandmothers and Happy Mother’s Day to a very special Mother in Russia.