Happy Mom's Day!!!

I want to say Happy Mother's Day to everyone including my mom, my mother-in-law, my sisters and sister-in-laws and all of my girlfriends, both mothers and future mothers. They are all so special to me. I have had a fun Mother's Day. I had a little bit of a cold so I didn't get to go to church with the rest of the family but it is almost gone now so that is good. My mom gave me a beautiful pot of flowers (mums) to plant at my new house when we move into it and Justin gave me a really good book, (I LOVE books) and of course I was given a lot of good stuff to eat. Justin even bought me an apple pie yesterday to have for desert tonight. He sure knows the way to make me a happy mom. The book that Justin gave me is called, "It's Okay to Take a Nap and Other Reassuring Truths for Mothers Everywhere". He said that he saw the title and knew that was the book for me. hee hee So I am halfway through it already and there is a chapter where the author gives a list of "Five Wonderful and Unexpected Surprises I Have Experienced in Motherhood so Far:" I loved the things that she wrote and I decided to write my own little list for a Mother's Day post. I will only do three though just to spare you from reading a REALLY long post. So here it is,

Three Wonderful and Unexpected Surprises
I Have Experienced in Motherhood So Far:

1. You can never get enough of looking into your newborns eyes.
I remember a night that I was up with Jaiden when he was just a few weeks old. He was having some bubbles that were making him uncomfortable and he just couldn't get back to sleep. Once I calmed him down, I sat down on the couch and rocked him for a little while. While I rocked him in the dark living room, I really couldn't see anything but his big dark eyes looking up at me and just being able to look at his eyes made me glad to be a mom.
2. You will quickly get over your fear of singing out loud.
I never did any kind of a solo before I was a mom. I don't think anybody had ever heard me sing in public. But now I sing almost every day just to keep things running smoothly in the house. I can proudly say that I will sing 5 rounds of "The Itsy Bitsy Spider" just to get us through a shopping trip if I need too.

3. Playing with your child lets you remember all of the fun things that you liked to do when you were little. I LOVE playing with Jaiden outside. I think it is because that was my favorite thing to do when I was little. Going and digging in Grandma and Grandpa's back yard is Jaiden's favorite thing to do and I am so glad that he can share the same back yard that I grew up in.