Thoughts on motherhood

I am so grateful for both my mother and my mother-in-law and I spent much of the day thinking about how wonderful they are and how much I appreciate them. However, I have been especially grateful as of late to be a mother myself. I love my children so much and can't believe how much joy they add to my life. I am not as good of a mother as I would like to be but fortunately I have many good examples around me to try and emulate - especially my two sisters and my mother.

This was the first Mother's Day that any of my children have really been old enough to give me a gift that they actually made themselves. Austin glued pictures to a flower pot at a Primary activity on Saturday and was SOOO excited to give it to me. He even got to cut out the pictures himself he told me. Here is a picture of him with the pot (that he assured me was for a flower and not for cooking):


And here are my three beautiful children:

I love them tremendously and I love that they love me so completely!