Being a Mom

I was so fortunate this past weekend to be able to be with one of my children on Mother's Day.....My daughter. Surely did miss my son, though.
What a treat that would have been to have them both there with me.

What is it that brings that longing for your children out in moms on Mother's day? Is it because we want everyone to see what wonderful children we have been blessed with? Partly. I think that it is just a good excuse to be with your family. A good reason to remember to praise the Lord for them. To remember how much He has blessed you.

I sometime say to my daughter that I have been so blessed to have such wonderful children and their families and she says to me....so if moms have children with problems or with health problems, they are not blessed??? And I assure her that is not what I meant. We, as moms, are all blessed in different ways. I just praise the Lord for the family that He gave to me.

It was a wonderful day. In fact, I spent the whole week at my new "part time"home in lp, and I enjoyed it very much. It's still a little frightening. A complete new world. But God is opening it up to me, bringing me new friends and new ideas, new areas for growth.

I could not help but sit in church and think back over the years to the memories of other Mother Days that I had. Wonderful ones. Wonderful memories. Funny memories.
The times that the children would cook breakfast for me and serve it to me in bed. I had to remember to stay in bed so that they could do that. The foods that they served me...burnt toast, REALLY crisp bacon, hard-fried eggs, orange juice with roughage of seeds in it, strong coffee, and always a flower in a vase on the tray.
And it was all delicious. I had to eat every bit of it. What a treat. What a show of love from them. What a wonderful blessing.

And the presents they gave me....the ones that were "home made". The things that they had purchased themselves...the ones they had thought of for me....the love they showed me...their own handmade cards. The love. Always made me cry. And it still does.

I especially remember one mom's day when my son gave me a rubber snake. I was a little surprised. I remember how his dad kind of chewed him out because that was not a gift you gave to your mom on her day. but I cherished that snake. I knew when he gave it to me that it was because he thought of me as his friend, not just his mom. I can not tell you how many places that snake showed up. In the dresser, under clothes, hiding....in a box in the garage when I was looking for something.....hanging down a little bit from a high shelf in the garage....in the washing machine when I put in a load of wash....and one time under the covers of the bed when I pulled back my blanket one night....that one almost did me in.

But we had fun with it. and, would you believe, the snake was finally used in the garden, where I had planted squash and tomatoes?? It kept the birds and rabbits away. Worked wonderfully.

I guess the memories all kind of jumble together in my heart and mind and they all blend as a wonderful time in my life. A time that was full of love, laughter, and screams and shrieks, but a bunch of wonderfully funny memories that I will cherish as long as I live.

As I listen to these "younger" moms now, it is a whole new way of life that I am seeing in them...a new era...a new way of raising children....new ideas...wonderful new ways to educate them while they are still so young and are like little sponges and soak up every word that mom says to them....new improvements on the ideas we used in the "earlier"days when we were young moms. I truly admire these ladies that I see. So many of them work outside the home, and some of them are single moms....man, my hat goes off to all of them....and yet they are raising those sweet little children with every bit of the love, and the patience, and the energy, that God supplies to them. He is truly blessing them and they are leaning on Him. They are raising the Christian Leaders of the future. Praise the Lord!

Praise the Lord for all the moms who let the Lord guide and use them. Thank you, Lord, for the blessings you have given to me.