My Mother's Day

For Mother's Day, I woke to the traditional yummy heart shaped biscuits for breakfast. The kids of course had helped making then and Eileen was so sweet as she handed mommy the biggest one! I then got to walk outside and see the gift that Eileen and Daddy had spent ALL afternoon on Saturday working on. Eileen would help carry things and help dig, and come in and tell mommy how she was being Daddy's big helper with my "surprise dirt!" She even came in so excited about the pill bug she found in my "surprise dirt." Don't worry, I got more than dirt for Mother's Day. I got the beginning of my retaining wall in our back yard! Dan and I have a list of improvements we would like to make in the back yard eventually, and this was one of them. It's so exciting to see our yard becoming what we have dreamed for it! ...Now if I could just get something to grow in our garden....

The primary kids sang today at church. Eileen was so cute up there. every time they sang "I love you" she would reach out and point to me. Dan also spoke at church about mothers and motherhood (making me sound good) at one point, he quoted someone suggesting that kids should show their love for their mothers often by throwing their arms around them and saying "I love you" Eileen immediately dropped what she was doing and did just that!

Now for the fun. I asked Eileen some questions about me and here are her answers....

What's your mom's favorite dinner?
Eileen - Dutch babies (that's what we had for dinner tonight....)

What makes your mom happy?
Eileen - Me cracking the eggs for her (once again she is talking about making the dutch babies...)

What's the nicest thing you've ever done for your mom?
Eileen - Me reading books to her (she wanted to say the same thing as the last question, but I made her come up with something different)

What's your favorite thing to do with your mom?
Eileen - Play games, read books and snuggle

What's the best Mother's Day present you could give to your mom?
Eileen - a flower (and she did give me a flower! A lovely yellow weed flower from our yard!)

What's you mom's favorite primary song?
Eileen - How Firm a Foundation

If your mom had a million dollars, what would she buy?
Eileen - A pet fish (a what!!!!????? that's one pampered fish!!)

Gotta love the sweetness and wisdom of 4 year olds!!!