Mother's Day

Feel free to skip this post.  There are pictures below.  This is more for me than anyone!


Today I am feeling a bit emotional and weepy.  I haven't broken down, but have come to tears quite frequently.  Don't worry they are not sad tears.    I am so blessed to be a mother, and a recent video seen on lds.org about Stephanie Nielson  (her blog is wonderful too, go here nienie), made me realize that belssing even more.  I have the wonderful opportunity to teach my kids the gospel, and to be their steward here on earth and during this life.  My roles as a mother are divine, and it is so nice to know that.  In a talk given by L. Tom Perry he quoted Sister Hinckley when she said this about motherhood.  "It is the mothers of young children I would like to address first. These are golden years for you. These are years when you will probably do the most important work of your lives. Don’t wish away your years of caring for small children. Life is what happens to you while you are making other plans. This is a time of great opportunity for you to build the kingdom. When you teach children to love their Heavenly Father, you have done one of the greatest things you will ever do. If you can be a full-time homemaker, be grateful. If not, you must do what is best for you. I for one have never felt a need to apologize for my role as a full-time homemaker.  Motherhood is the noblest and greatest of all callings."  I will try really hard not to wish away my kids childhood.  Especially when I am spending some days wishing that someday Sydney will obey me, when she is just a little older.  My family is my life and I am so blessed to have a hard working husband who works so that I can stay home with my kids.  I wouldn't have it any other way.  I feel so blessed to be a wife to a wonderful man who loves me unconditionally, even when I'm weepy and crazy.  I want my kids to know that I do love my Heavenly Father, and I know that I can return to live with Him again.  I am a divine woman and I am so blessed to know this.  The gospel in my life enriches me and lifts me up when I am feeling down.  I'm so thankful to my mother and other influential mothers in my life who taught me this when I was younger and continue to teach me daily.  I have never doubted my need to be a mother.  I have no regrets in the choice I have made to be a mother.  I only have faith that the Lord will sustain me as I raise my children in the gospel of Jesus Christ.  It's so great to be a mom.