Mother's Day

Mother's Day went well this year.  Nothing too big, but I do enjoy taking to the opportunity to reflect about my own mother and also my own experience being a mother.  I remember when I first had Ann how I'd get people saying things like "isn't motherhood just the best??" or "aren't you just loving this??".  I remembering thinking "no, I'm actually having a really hard time."  I actually really liked a quote I saw one of my friends had posted on facebook: "Motherhood is wonderful and magical and awful and hard."   As time goes on, I am more and more seeing the wonderful and magical parts of motherhood (not that I didn't experience any of that back when Ann was first born, but the moments tended to get overshadowed by the difficult parts - looking back, perhaps I had some degree of postpartum depression back then - who knows).  I love my children more than I could possibly imagine, and no matter how challenging it can be to raise them, I would not trade them for anything.

Ann filled out a "5 things I love about my mom" sheet in primary.  I smiled because you could totally tell that she had just had her birthday.  Her answers were: 1. That you give me hugs and kisses, 2. you hug me on my birthday, 3. you give me flowers on my birthday, 4. you cook me good food, and 5. you do my hair for me.

When we finally went outside to take pictures, Ian was less than enthusiastic about sitting down to take pictures.  Ann was more willing :)

I got Ian to join me on the grass (and very soon tried to run away).