Mother's day

Mother's days this year was nice and low key. The previous night my stomach was really hurting and I was up late not feeling well, so I got to sleep in and relax. Alissa kept coming in with me trying to get me out of bed so I would come out and look at the table. Alan made breakfast in bed like usual, which is always nice to be waited on and spoiled. When I finally made it out, I had nice little notes from the kids and Alan and they picked flowers from the yard to make a beautiful bouquet! Alan and the kids went to visit his mom while I stayed home relaxing and trying to feel better. My stomach has been having major pains that almost double me over, it's nuts! For dinner we enjoyed one of my faves, homemade PF Changs chicken lettuce wraps, so good even with the alterations we make because of our clean eating. So ya, it was nice. I personally would have loved to get out and go on a pic-nic or something, but my stomach wasn't having that! I am for sure loved by my little family and am grateful to be the mom to two pretty awesome and amazing kids who have such (opposite) personalities. Being a mom is probably the hardest thing I've done and will ever do! It's a minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day (you get the idea) job of worry, sweet moments, questioning my ability to raise these two into good adults, stress, pic-nics, dinners, playing, more worrying, reading to, hanging out and constantly changing job! My hope is that one day when they are all grown up they only have (mostly) good things to say! They have to and I truly believe they know how loved they are, even through the day to day chaos that goes on with life. I am very lucky to be their mom!

And with that, I am also thankful for my own mom. The older I get and the more I parent my kids, the more and more I realize that my mom was truly doing the best she knew how, just like I am. She gave me life and a pretty good one at that.  I have wonderful memories of growing up and and having a lot of fun times. I look back and see a lot of similarities between my mom and I and understand things that I never did before becoming a mom. So Happy Mother's day to you too mom, I love you!

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