Mothers Day 2017

mothers day was last sunday.

the thing i get most excited about on this day is getting the little crafts that the boys made at school

and seeing what they picked me at the mothers day stall.

this year i got another teddy from makai 

- he is collecting quit the collection of plush toys for (himself) me.

and brax chose block letters that say i love mum.

i got my first pre-school craft from zayden ever this year 

and he thought it was pretty neat hiding it until sunday.

braxton made me a video in his class and told me all the reasons he loves me.

i think the teacher had to tell him to stop because he went on and on and on and on AND ON.

makai wrote me a card that said 

"Here Mum,

You are the best mum in the hole uenevers,

By Makai."

my most FAVOURITE part of this whole day was the musical item the boys did along with the primary and young womens at church in the morning.

they sung a mash up song between Mother I love You and Teacher Do You Love Me.

it's called Mother Will You Love Me/Mother I Love You.

i balled my eyes out like a baby.

i even had to use Zayden's shirt as a tissue because i was unprepared.

seeing my boys sing 

"Mother will you love me, mother will you care for me? 

Even if i turn away or disobey or go astray, Then will you still love me?"

with their big eyes and big smiles looking right at me.

- who wouldn't cry.

it was tender.

those words rang true to me.

my mum always loved all of her children even when we did turn away, go astray or disobey,

her love was always there.

and that is exactly how i want to be with my boys.

she is the greatest example to me of what a mother is.

after all the deliciousness we got at church,

we headed to grammy and grampy's house for lunch and played games for hours.

we came home and had a delicious meal of hamburgers,

we were so stuffed from church and g&g's house that we couldn't even think about dessert.

-on a side note i just have to write this down because i want to remember this, 

it has nothing to do with mothers day it just happened on this day.

i love that when jevan gets up to conduct and announces that a car had left their lights on,

he reads the number plate out to the congregation.

what he didn't realise was it was OUR cars number plate he was reading out

 and HE was the last to drive it.

he didn't even realise,

bishop had to nudge him and tell him i had just run outside because it was your car.