h0ldfast: Monday May 14, 2012

there is a tear rolling down my cheek - i had just read sailor's mothers day card. last night she told me how 'all the cards daddy gets you are fancy & they start with a sentence on the front & then finish it on the inside & then he writes something to you' - she made her own.

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i just laid my baby down. he is truly the baby. there's a good breeze blowing through the open windows in our room. i covered him up with a well used old yellow blanket that has covered every one of the kids when they slept in the cradle in our room. he is sound asleep.

i'm eating chocolate cake. no we didn't get the one in the last post. but rex & chad went back later and bought one. i'm looking through pictures. there is music playing. and i want to remember mothers day 2012.

jack told me this morning all i had to do was get dressed & feed the baby. they would do everything else -
in theory it was a sweet thought ; )

i forgot one quote from the last post - it went something like this ..... 'mom all the time, everywhere we go now, people are always counting us' - jack commented after the 3rd someone said something in costco in the first 7 minutes we'd been in the store.

there are six. we're over the surprise of that now : )
i look at them in these pictures & just marvel, seriously at how sweetly generous Jesus is.

they made their own wrapping paper -

a rare sunday morning breakfast together & thanks to jacks photography we have a picture of it : )

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my mom is beautiful. she has lived love & selflessness & gentleness over and over, again and again my whole life.

we went to mom's after church today -

it was chad's first afternoon poolside & he did it in style : )

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and we're going to keep counting our blessings ....

we invited her to dinner last night. she cried, not because our dinner was that bad but because she loves us. i never had a grammy & a grandma that lived in the same town