Mother’s Day

Well, here I am a whole week late with this post, but here it is! Better late than never, I suppose.

I was trying to make Mother’s day real special for my wife, as I try to every year, but when it comes on a Sunday and you’re involved in early morning church ministries, that kind of complicates things. I didn’t have the liberty of doing the breakfast in bed and other nice little things like that and, while my younger ones were willing, they just were not able. So….I had to do my best with what I could….

Well lets talk about the start of the day. All I wanted to do was get my wife’s card signed and then go upstairs and decorate the white board with a simple happy mother’s day message. Usually on Sunday’s I’m the only one who is around and about this early in the morning. But, oh no, not this Sunday. THIS Sunday my wife decided to get out of bed early! Now I had to act like I was doing something else and hide all traces of what I was actually doing. To top it all off, she was upstairs doing stuff too, so I couldn’t get the whiteboard decorated. Mind you, I’m on a limited time schedule here. Any other Sunday and she would have been sleeping like a baby. Well, at least I had the sense to have the kids do their cards and stuff the night before. They didn’t have to worry about this!

Well that was pretty much the morning. I wouldn’t see my wife again until the afternoon! There was a special activity at church but I was able to get back in time to be able to grill the hamburgers that my wife wanted for lunch/dinner. You guys out there, If you have a wife like mine, you know how hard it is to keep her out of the kitchen and keep her from cleaning. My wife certainly made it a challenge. She cleans without even thinking about it. Unbelievable! I had to actually kick her out of the kitchen so that I could clean it! i tried to take care of the kids and keep them out of her hair, but, honestly, I’m not sure how good of a job I did. Then it was fast food for the evening meal (so I didn’t have to cook and she didn’t have to think about cleaning) to round off the day. I got the little ones in bed and proceeded to beat my wife at backgammon and Acey-Deucy (not intentionally, but what can I do about the dice? I have to take whatever comes up right? No matter, she’ll get me back!

My wife wants her carpets cleaned and professional family photos taken. Neither of which has been done yet, but I’ll make sure that it gets done. I tried to get my son (who works for Stanley Steamer cleaning carpets) come up and do the carpets, the visit would have been worth the price, but he couldn’t make it. All-in-all, I think it was a good day. But I also think I that it could have been better. I am glad that the Lord gave my wife to me and that she is the mom of my 7 (yes seven) children. I pray that the Lord gives us many more Mother’s days together.   I’ll get that many more chances to make them special!