Mother's Day

It was a really nice Mother's Day. Earlier in the week I received this box from Ben's office - very cool!  And Luke brought from school these papers and a little sprout that didn't survive long enough for me to get around to taking a picture.

Cat and Eliza made me this cool hanging heart decoration and when I woke up to go to Choir Sunday morning I found this cute card and a carefully selected assortment of chocolates waiting for me.

Luke gave me this paper after church.  It says, in mostly correct spelling, "I kill weeds. I eat weeds. I eat corn.  I love you."  And even though I didn't wrangle the kids for a picture after church, at least I got a selfie with Ben.

I made a loaf of bread, spent some time listening to one of Jack's books, had a Come, Follow Me lesson with the family, then took a good nap.  That evening Ben grilled for us and his brother's family, and Cat made us extra-fancy homemade brownies with ice cream and strawberries.

Then cousins stayed at our house that night so that Joseph and Lindsey could practice taking care of their baby in the hospital before bringing him home.  It took a while to get all the kids to bed, especially the toddler, who required a long drive to fall asleep, and the 7-year-old, who hated being away from home. It was about 10:30 before everyone was settled.  The next task of the night was to fix one of the cousin's blankies that had been torn up by their dog.

I thought it was fitting that on Mother's Day I did a little more mothering than I normally do, and I was grateful that I could help out with my brother-in-law's family.  All in all, it was a great day.