My First Happy Mother's Day

Well, technically it wasn't the first because my twins are going on 9. But this was the first Mother's Day that they were very aware of it, and made plans for me.

Nope, no special breakfast in bed or stuff like that. They prepared a little drama for me.

All week long they'd been saying they wanted to give me a gift for happy mother's day, and i told them they had to talk to their daddy about it so it would be a surprise for me. I have caught them whispering, even telling other friends about it.

So Happy Mother's Day came. After breakfast, I sat at the computer to check on some stuff and I heard the whispering on the bed, and suddenly, the call:

"Mommy, we have a gift for you!!"

Lying on the bed was this big mountain wrapped in a flower-print sheet with an old gift ribbon on top. They had wrapped their daddy up.

"Why is my gift moving?" I asked.

Jodie leaned over to the "gift" and whispered, which caused the gift to shake harder. To stop the torture, I "unwrapped" the gift and gave my husband a hug, while the two princesses prepared two more "gifts" for me.

Yup, they wrapped one and then the other up in a flower-print sheet, this time their barbie belts arranged so that they look like a bow.

They may not have given me store-bought gifts, but they did have the right idea: THEY are my gifts, given from God's heart to my life, for which I am daily and eternally grateful. And I'm glad they know that that's how I feel about them.

All of them.

But what made my husband start laughing when I wondered why my gift was moving?

"Jodie told me," he said while they were wrapping themselves up:

"'Daddy, stop breathing!!'"

Happy Mother's Day to all of us moms! ^_^