Happy Mothers Day!

   Mother's day is such an amazing day for me, especially this year, as I was blessed with my second and last child. I didn't think, or know if I would ever have these children. I struggled with infertility, as I have discussed before, and I am so blessed to have my two beautiful children. Because of them I get to celebrate this day with lots of amazingly beautiful women.  I am so honored.
   Now with all that said, we tend to expect some sort of gift for mothers day. Something that says the pain we beared while carrying you for 9 long months and laboring for 36 long hours before having an emergency c section, is remembered every year (as well as on their birthday)!I am sure all of you mothers have gotten some really great gifts, and some really not so great gifts, and honestly my husband is not always the best gift giver, however this year I received a gift certificate to Cheeburger Cheeburger! I love their German Chocolate Cake Shakes and trek over there once a week to get one. I really liked that he noticed that and got me something I could use!
    My very first mothers day was initially a different story. I woke up and had no mothers day card or gift. Almost no acknowledgement of this first special day for me. He pretty much knew it too because he immediately got out of bed, still thinking I was asleep and left. He was gone for a long time. I stewed upset and thinking of all the mean things I could say to him when he returned. After a couple of hours had passed, he came home with my son and a card he gave me. What started out as the worst mothers day, turned out to be my most favorite and memorable. To this day the poem, inside the card that Daddy D wrote still makes me tear up. So I leave you with my first mother's day present and hope that all you mothers out there had a wonderful day celebrating your awesomeness!

For Mommy With Love
Written by Daddy Thoughts provided by Bryce James

If I could make the words to say,
I'd tell you Happy Mother's Day.
I can't make the words, so I'll just smile,
While daddy writes my thoughts awhile.
When I was in your tummy growing,
My daddy says people said, "Hey, you're showing!"
So when I grew bigger in there, I was too tight!
So I punched and kicked with all my might!
Daddy says I was Strong and cute,
And I was getting ready to drop down the chute!
But to my surprise there came fingers big and curly,
They pulled me out a whole month early!
So I gasped and cried my little lungs to the max,
So hard, daddy called it a pneumothorax!
I scared you by staying in the incubator,
And you couldn't even hold me until a few days later.
When you held me first, I heard you speaking,
So I looked and saw, "Hey mom, your eyes are leaking!"
But daddy said they were tears of joy,
'Cause I was her new baby boy!
I laugh and grin when you call me "doodlebug",
'Cause I know I get some kisses and hugs!
And those are what I love the most,
Here at home or on the Florida coast!
I travel so much in my new little life,
So full of tough and struggling strife.
But I know it will make me bigger and stronger,
So I can see all my grandmas and grandpas longer!
I get so much love from so many places,
So many kisses and hugs from so many faces!
But yours are the best and I can't get enough,
Even when I'm older and acting all tough!
I'll still need your kisses and hugs and protection,
From all of my future let downs and rejections!
Daddy will be there too, and that's great!
But mommy's are the best ones even when its late!
And when I play baseball as good as my cousin,
I'll be hitting home runs by the dozen!
I'll grow stronger like you and daddy are,
And I'll become a big shot baseball star,
Or how about a football or basketball player?
A doctor, a lawyer, or even city mayor?
What ever I'll be, I know it will show,
Wherever I am, and wherever I go.
That I have the best mommy in world ever,
And a dad whose forgetful but sometimes clever.
After all he wrote these words that rhyme,
From the things that I'm thinking all of the time!
So I'll thin k it again so dad Can convey,
All the love and hugs that I display.
And if I could make the words, I'd be glad to say,
"I love you Mommy, Happy Mothers Day!"