...is it really Mother's Day???

Hey...I'm not trying to sound facetious here

(ok..so I am trying)

...but does Mother's Day mean that the mom is supposed to...

- dig up the garden to get ready for planting...

- work on the courtyard (a never-ending project)...

- teach 'daughter' (C#5) how to hem pants...

- go fix the pool vac/filter @ the rental house...

- and...oh ya, get Hub to go shopping & invite kids for Mother's Day dinner...?

...hmmm...I must be missing something...

Ok...so I am being just a wee bit self absorbed...besides the fact that Mother's Day isn't until tomorrow...- Hub was working right alongside me digging up the garden that I want to plant...

- working on the courtyard that I designed...

- I would probably feel unneeded if C#5 didn't ask me to help her with the pants...

- my hand is the only one small enough to fit in the pool filter...

- and...oh ya, Hub had the kids come by to take me to

Cheese Cake Factory

(one of my faves for dinner...)

Kevin (C#2) even let me ride in the front seat of his car

(a real treat if you could see his Geo Prism)

So yes...it really is Mother's Day...and I wouldn't have it any other way...even if I had planned it...

Another tidbit: @ dinner Lydia (GC#2) leaned over and asked me, "What did you look like when you

weren't so old, Grandma?"

...that little darlin' just makes me smile...

...and isn't this about the cutiest loveseat you ever saw???

(thanks, Hub)

Epilogue:

This is Sunday and the 'real' Mother's Day...

- Sac Mtg (@ 8am) was nice with the choir and

 most of the YM and YW in the ward singing 

"Mother Mine"

(a beautiful song an old friend, Kathy Openshaw, composed) 

I am the choir director so it was great to have the choir loft completely filled...

A few years ago, Rusty (C#4) and Dayla (C#3) 

sang this song on Mother's Day in our ward in Gilbert 

and I bawled all the way through it...

....Rusty looked down at me and started to choke up, too...

...that is really a cherished memory...

Mother Mine

"You sang to me, ah, so sweetly. You held me close in your arms. 
You were always there, beside you is where I knelt in my very first prayer.
 You pick me up when I fall, you wipe a tear from my eye. 
You build me up, you give me your love, 
Mother Mine.

Mother, mother, I love you so. I see your smile, watching me grow. 
My joys were yours, my sorrows, too. God sent an angel when he gave me you.
 Mother, mother, forever more, blest be your name and glory your crown.

You sing to me, ah, so sweetly. You hold me close in your arms.
 You were always there, beside you is where I knelt in my very first prayer.
 You pick me up when I fall, you wipe a tear from my eye. 
You build me up, you give me your love,
 Mother Mine."

We plan to visit the cemetery and leave some pretty roses for Grandma Jo and then reconvene at our home to Gather - Laugh - and Enjoy (and eat lasagna)...

After a few phone calls, (to 'my mom' and from 'other daughter')

this Mother's Day should just about be complete...

PS - I just got a message that Lisa and Jenny got in an accident yesterday 

(head-on collision with another car)...

Jenny broke her back in 2 places and a gash above her eye and Lisa is bruised up pretty badly but everything looks positive for a complete healing...I'm sure they will be kinda sore for a while...the accident was completely the other driver's fault...

We are so grateful the results were not any worse than they were...the Lord is watching out for us...