Mother's Day II

I meant to post this on Mother's Day...

My sister emailed us these quotes for Mother's Day. They so describe my mother.

"I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived."

"We women have a lot to learn about simplifying our lives. We have to decide what is important and then move along at a pace that is comfortable for us. We have to develop the maturity to stop trying to prove something. We have to learn to be content with what we are."

These quotes were by Marjorie Pay Hinckley.

I've shed a few tears missing my mom recently. I've found at major milestones in our lives, or our childrens, we wish she was here to celebrate with us. When my family got together a few weekends ago for Jonah's baby blessing, I wished she could have been there with us to coo over her new grandson, or just so I could snuggle beside her on the couch.

Still trying to be like her...

Still have a long way to go...

:)