Happy Mother's Day!

If ever there was a day that words would fail to represent my thoughts, that day is today.  How can I pay adequate tribute to that someone who brought me into existence?  I can't.  But I will try!

Happy Mother's Day!  Here are a few tributary paragraphs about why mothers are great.

Being a mom is the ultimate sacrifice.  I'm learning just how great that sacrifice is, now that I've seen my sisters become mothers.  I wonder how they do it.  I wonder how all women do it!  Mothers are truly the unsung heroes of this world.  They sacrifice their lives to bring snotty, bratty, impossible children into the world and hardly get any recognition.  Seriously.  How do they do it?

It's funny how a lot of my life I thought everything my mom did for her children was obligatory.  Certainly she HAD to make my dinner every day.  That's her job, right? Certainly she HAD to pay attention to anything and everything I wanted her to.  Certainly she HAD to know exactly the right words to say when I was depressed or lonely.  How ignorant I was in thinking that way!  I wish I would've realized sooner that every single thing she did for me was at her own self-sacrifice.  That is love that is hard to come by.  That is certainly the kind of love that is only felt from our mothers.

Mothers are the great followers of Christ.  I can hardly think of any other person (or group of people) that was willing to sacrifice their life for someone else's.  In my mom's case, she sacrificed her life for five someone else's.  And for that, I am forever indebted to her, just as I am forever indebted to the Savior.

I love you mom! Thanks for simultaneously being my best friend, my mentor, my playmate, my hero, my maid (sorry about that), my nurturer and everything else that entails.  I know I can never thank you enough, but that won't stop me from trying.