Jealous?

I do love Mothers Day! Despite the fact, I have to clean up the messes that the kids left after making me 4 separate "breakfast in bed" meals...despite the fact that I have approximatley 76 pieces of paper that says "I love you, mom" that I would feel guilty throwing out (at least in front of them) and have no real "reserved" spot in my "keep this or you'll regret it later" box...and not forgetting my homemade noodle necklace, the bracelet that they made for me that erroniously says "perfect mother" (which incidentally broke open during sacrament meeting, they managed to find a majority of the beads, but were only able to spell out "mother f" - ha - not really but that would have been funny, right?) and another beaded bracelet that was slightly too tight and left little indentations on my wrist - I wore it anyway!

For breakfast in bed, I was treated to a bowl of cheesy grits (I grew up in the south, these actually taste pretty good to me!) a pancake medly with chocolate chip morsels in it that spelled out "I U" two eggs over medium on their own pieces of toast and a glass of orange juice and a glass of chocolate milk. Two extra pieces of toast with strawberry freezer jam on it. It was a HUGE breakfast, and a HUGE mess to clean up in the itty bitty kitchen! But, it was great to have the kids sitting at the foot of my bed asking me to try "their" breakfast. Yep, I dipped some toast in the egg...I had bites of the grits and the "I" and the "U" of the pancakes! Sipped some of the OJ and guzzled down the chocolate milk.

And for dessert --- I got THIS:


INDEED! A full-on pedicure! Kiersten and I go out to get these from time to time, mostly during the summer - and since she's gotten them, she's been bitten by the pedicure bug! She likes to go around the house offering pedicures. So yah- I wasn't the ONLY one to get one - her poor daddy, whose also suffering from toe jam (remember? - yah - he's still cry-babying about that - actually He's in the process of losing one of his toes - the other one is nice and black under the nail - ewe, right?!)
And for SECOND desserts - I got a dose of the laughing queen!



We went to church for lunch, well you know- the spiritual feast. Brother Burns - a sealer in the Mesa Temple - taught RS - it truly was a TREAT! - and then for dinner, the brood made me the tastiest tri-tip steak in the world and potatoes and fresh hot rolls and a broccoli salad....what? no dessert?

You know how the youngest child in a family is always the spoiled one. The parents always give them whatever they want...well, sometimes I feel like Heavenly Fathers youngest spirit child. I am SPOILED - I have the best husband and the kids are pretty good, too! I really am quite lucky - and don't deserve most of what I have in my family!

I only wish I would have remembered that I wanted to get a picture of everyone after church - but we were all starving - and had to run in to figure out dinner before we all collapsed on each other! (Church at 12:30 after sleeping in and having a huge breakfast, will leave ANYONE hungry when you get home at 4:00!)

Hope everyone else had a great mother's day - if it wasn't so great - at least I hope you got to spend a few moments appreciating the little gifts from above that turned us into mothers!