Happy Mother's Day

"I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. ~Abraham Lincoln"

I am grateful today for my own mother, who took walks with me, spent time reading to me, and who I can always talk to!
And  my beautiful grandmother as well. I have happy memories of the time I spent at her house as a girl.

And I am so thankful today for Tyler's mom, Shelley and the valuable lessons she has taught me. She is a blessing in my life!

 I am so grateful to have the gift of being a mother to my own children as well! I have decided that motherhood really is a sacred calling. Being a mother has always been my highest aspiration. With motherhood has come many tears, more frustration than I ever thought possible, feelings of inadequacy, but at the same time the purest feelings of love and happiness I have ever felt. 

And so on those days when I find an apple wedged in the bottom of the toilet, poop smeared across the toilet seat, or my daughter drops an entire pizza face down on the floor, I try to  keep my cool, and just choose love. 

And really, they are just so darn cute.  How could I not love them?!