Mother's Day 2025

Good Mother's Day morning. I'm grateful for these kids who made me a mom over and over and have given me the greatest joys of my life. Sweet Katharine

Cute Peter.

Like, if I ever need to cue up some tears, all I have to do is ponder for a minute on how merciful God has been to be so over the top abundant to me. I got the man of my dreams, I've had good health and heathy pregnancies and deliveries and 13 healthy children, I honestly don't get it, it doesn't seem fair, and I don't know why I get 13, but I am truly truly humbled and grateful. (Tears are here). So the kids were very sweet and gifted me quite the collection of Mother's Day Cards and gifts today. Peter made me a keychain at school.

And a book about all the reasons that he love me. He loves me because I take him "playsis"

I always help him to to the bus stop.

Peter wants to send me on a trip to Flodu.

He likes my spaghetti. Haha, spgete. I loved all the words he spelled so well phonetically!

Owen made me a flower pot at school.

Notes from the girls. They wrote them in their young women's class today. From Abi.

From Lily (I don't think that was an attack on my nose).

Sophi drew me a unicorn. 

And Natalie wants me to start cooking bacon again.

Papers that the kids made in Primary. Peter (and his teachers) gave me a chocolate. I had three kids sitting around me when I read his card, so I had to split my truffle four ways (Me, Daniel, Peter and Katharine).

Mel and Christian came by and we had a nice visit, after we all took a little snooze. 

They headed up to Bountiful around 4:30 to be with Christian's Family and they gave me a full size Goodbar chocolate bar, which I promptly went upstairs and ate. Ethan and Bella came by for a brief visit tonight (they left after Lily was upset from him teasing her by pouring a bit of water on her head from a cup). They gave me a nice card. I know Bella is the one who makes cards happen. She is great. I need to send cards. I liked Ethan's note, it made me laugh. Maybe I'll start to tell him "suck it" as code for "i love you".

Corey got me some red biking pants (that I might need to exchange for a larger size, or I need to lose a little bit of weight... I might also exchange them for black), and a few other biking items. He took my bike into the shop yesterday, something got messed up in the hub when we were on a ride up the canyon. I think it's a problem with the crank or bottom bracket (I just looked up "the anatomy of a bike" to see if I could see where I think it was...) Like when I pedaled, it wouldn't grab on to the chain for a few spins, but then it would, but if I coasted and didn't crank it, it would detach again and then I'd be spinning my pedals without moving the wheels again when I did try to pedal again. Anyway, I will probably get him some biking stuff for his birthday and father's day too, so it's nice we are on the same page. It was a wonderful Mother's day. I'm still holding out some hope for one more. I know I'm getting old, and I know I've had my fair share with 13, but, still... "...and one more??? Add one more?"