Happy Mothers Day!!

I just wanted to say Happy Mother's Day to all you wonderful mother's out there, and especially to my own wonderful mother. And I was also thinking today about how much we are shaped not only by our mothers, but by their mother's and their mother's back through the line. I have had some wonderful examples of motherhood in my life, and I really have loved having such wonderful grandmothers as well. I miss those who have gone, and still love the memories I have of them, and am happy to have one amazing grandmother left here with us. (Hopefully for a long long time). So I hope that you all know how much I love and appreciate all of the effort you have put into teaching and loving me over the years. I love you.

I know I have more recent photos of us together mom, but I couldn't find any today, so I figured I'd post a photo of you and Carter. Thanks for being such a great grandma.

This is an excerpt from a book, and I really like it. I thought I'd share it for mother's day as well.

I am grateful for my children, for the delight and love they bring, for the sweet smell of their hair and the soft touch of their skin. For the first time they smiled at me or walked into my arms. For the meaning they bring to life. For receiving my love and lessons. For being their own persons, for giving me their own love and lessons. Having them at all is a miracle, and the rest is details.I appreciate myself. For the love I have given my children, all the diapers changed, all the dishes done. For the long hours I've worked, the hoops I've jumped through to keep all those balls up in the air. For the efforts I've made, the many times I've stayed patient, the many times I've found more to give inside when I thought I was empty. I appreciate my husband. For the ways he has loved me, the fun we've had together, the humor and the companionship. For the times of support, understanding, and sympathy. For sweating and suffering too. I feel thankful for the life I've already had, for the good parts of my childhood, for everything I've learned, for good friends and beautiful sights. For the roof over my head and the bread on my table, for being able to have a life that is healthier, longer, and freer than most people have ever dreamed of. For this beautiful world, where each breath is a gift of air, each dawn a gift of light. For the plants and animals that die so I may live. For the extraordinary gifts of change I carry in each cell of my body, for the capabilities accumulated during three and a half billion years of life's presence on our planet. For the wonder of the universe, for all the atoms in my body-the carbon in my bones, the oxygen and was in order for me to be. For grace, for wisdom, for the sacred, for God as I know him. For this moment, this breath, this sight. For every good thing that was, that is, that ever will be.