HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!!

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Wishing mom's everywhere a very wonderful MOTHER'S DAY!!!

Happy Mother's Day MOM!!!
I ♥ YOU!!!

This post is just to provide mothers with a little humor today...

SO SMILE!!!! Afterall...it's YOUR day!!!



If you want a good laugh today go HERE.

Things Mom Would Never Say
"How on earth can you see the TV sitting so far back?"
"Yeah, I used to skip school a lot, too"
"Just leave all the lights on ... it makes the house look more cheery"
"Let me smell that shirt -- Yeah, it's good for another week"
"Go ahead and keep that stray dog, honey. I'll be glad to feed and walk him every day"
"Well, if Rahul's mamma says it's OK, that's good enough for me."
"The curfew is just a general time to shoot for. It's not like I'm running a prison around here."
"I don't have a tissue with me ... just use your sleeve"
"Don't bother wearing a jacket - the wind-chill is bound to improve"

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A man was sick and tired of going to work every day while his wife stayed home.

He wanted her to see what he went through so he prayed:

'Dear Lord: I go to work every day and put in 8 hours while my wife merely stays at home. I want her to know what I go through. So, please allow her body to switch with mine for a day.'

God, in his infinite wisdom, granted the man's wish. The next morning, sure enough, the man awoke as a woman...

He arose, cooked breakfast for his mate, awakened the kids, set out their school clothes, fed them breakfast, packed their lunches, drove them to school, came home and picked up the dry cleaning, took it to the cleaners and stopped at the bank to make a deposit, went grocery shopping, then drove home to put away the groceries, paid the bills and balanced the check book. He cleaned the cat's litter box and bathed the dog.

Then, it was already 1 P.M. and he hurried to make the beds, do the laundry, vacuum, dust, and sweep and mop the kitchen floor. Ran to the school to pick up the kids and got into an argument with them on the way home.

Set out milk and cookies and got the kids organized to do their homework. Then, set up the ironing board and watched TV while he did the ironing. At 4:30 he began peeling potatoes and washing vegetables for salad, breaded the pork chops and snapped fresh beans for supper.
After supper, he cleaned the kitchen, ran the dishwasher, folded laundry, bathed the kids, and put them to bed.

At 9 P.M. He was exhausted and, though his daily chores weren't finished, he went to bed where he was expected to make love, which he managed to get through without complaint.

The next morning, he awoke and immediately knelt by the bed and said:

Lord, I don't know what I was thinking. I was so wrong to envy my wife's being able to stay home all day. Please, Oh! please, let us trade back.. Amen!'

The Lord, in his infinite wisdom, replied:

'My son, I feel you have learned your lesson and I will be happy to change things back to the way they were. You'll just have to wait nine months, though.

You got pregnant last night.

You will need to pause my PLAYLIST at the bottom to listen...

"My" Girls...

Mother~Daughter Night

For our Young Women's Mother~Daughter night this year we had a wonderful evening planned all around weddings and temple marriage.

We were lucky enough to have a ward member that owns a small but beautiful reception center be kind enough to let us have it there.

We gathered some old and some new wedding dresses for the display.

The girls and their moms played a get to know you game before we got started.

I made a small wedding cake to add to the atmosphere.

I wrote some key words on the bottom layer to help the girls visualize what they must remember on their road to the temple... (click to enlarge)

We had Sister Reid ~ a former Temple Matron speak to the girls about preparing for the temple. She was wonderful and so sweet!

We also had a wonderful slide show of the mothers AND leaders wedding pictures! Wish I could add that on here. It was VERY entertaining to see some of those hair styles and dresses!!!

Group picture of the leaders. We have a lot of fun in case you can't tell! Not quite ready for the picture...

Okay now...!

BUT....not QUITE as much fun as me and the girls. Yes, I think I am one of them. I confess, I am the one that instigated this whole photo shoot. I kidnapped a few of them that were waiting to go home and took advantage of the great photo opp in this amazing bride room!

Dreaming and wondering...

I love each one of these...'my'... 30 + girls as if they were my own! I am so grateful I get to be their "mom" too!

FRIDAY MEMES

Food 4 Thought Friday

Feel free to play along for some yummy fun! I will post a new one each Thursday night for those that are on a different time zone. JOIN IN!!!


Food 4 Thought Friday ~ This week's questions

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Breakfast

Beach or mountains?

Lunch
Online shopping or store shopping?

Dinner

If you live in America, do you enjoy Mother's Day? If not, does your country celebrate Motherhood in any way?

Midnight Snack

What would be your best gift for Mother's Day?

Recipe of the Week (instead of your recipe for life what is it just for the week?)

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MY ANSWERS

Breakfast
Beach or mountains?
Most definitely beach!!! I would LOVE a beach house someday so I could wake up every morning to the sound of crashing waves! Oh man, I would ♥ that!

Lunch

Online shopping or store shopping?

Both. I really enjoy shopping in my favorite various stores but I also love the fact that if I need to find something hard to find, I can usually find it online. I have to be in the mood for each though.

Dinner
If you live in America, do you enjoy Mother's Day? If not, does your country celebrate Motherhood in any way?

I have mixed emotions about Mother's Day. I think Mother's do not receive the respect and admiration they deserve for the enormous and very difficult job they do day in and day out. So I think it is nice that a day has been set aside just for that. But... sometimes it tends to make us mom's feel a bit inferior to all those accolades that seem to focus on "perfect" mothers everywhere, which of course none exist, but of course we think they do! Which in turn makes us tend to compare ourselves to the so called "perfect" non-existing mothers, making us feel like we don't measure up. But... I will never complain about Mother's Day because I love the attention my boys and husband lavish on me that day. Who would complain about being a Queen for the day???

Midnight Snack
What would be your best gift for Mother's Day?
A card with a personal written note from each of my boys and husband. I can think of nothing better. Though my VERY favorite Mother's Day gifts have always been the cute little things my boys have made for me when they were younger. I still have all of them and I always will! PRICELESS! ♥

Recipe of the Week (instead of your recipe for life what is it just for the week?)
Life is too short to be wasted focusing on the bad when there is so much good to be found. ♥

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1. Apples are to oranges as star is to moon.

2. The swine flu...hmm... and that's all I have to say about that.

3. I think I hear my bed calling.

4. I feel deep gratitude and patriotism when I see our flag.

5. Do what you want to do, but remember each choice has consequences.

6. Here comes a little boy with a fishing pole and behind him was a Radio Flyer wagon; in the wagon was a bucket filled with worms.

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to a Mexican fiesta party at our friends, tomorrow my plans include a breakfast with my young women girls who are graduating this year, getting in a good run, getting some long put off stuff done, attending McKay's last concert and Sunday, I want every mother alive to have an awesome Mother's Day!

To play go HERE!

BYU Women's Conference 2009!!!

I had the wonderful opportunity to attend Women's Conference this year with a bunch of great friends. For those of you that are unfamiliar with what Women's Conference is exactly, I will try and give you a lay'wo'man's definition of it.

Wom-en's Con-fer-ence
[wim-ins] /ˈkɒnfərəns, -frəns/
–noun

1. A meeting lasting for the duration of two days consisting of approximately 20,000 women joined together on one campus to hear amazing and inspiring speakers and wonderful and talented musicians.

2. A gathering of females that behave as though they don't get out much - (though they do often☺) - that come together in one unit to let loose and indulge themselves in eating large amounts of cinnamon roasted almonds, kettle popcorn, BYU's famous mint brownies and fudge, Teriyaki rice bowls, chocolate covered cinnamon bears, and bottled water, all while soaking in great words of inspiration and wisdom.

3. A herd of women walking all over BYU's campus rushing (while usually simultaneously snarfing down some kind of nourishment i.e. BYU mint brownie) to get in a very long line in order to get inside a very large classroom to listen to the one speaker they came to hear and then being told the room is filled to capacity and to go find another class.

4. Females filling the Marriott Center to near capacity to gather together to be inspired and uplifted by not only speakers but musicians as well. Said females ranging in age from 16 to 96 jumping and letting loose and seriously rocking out to rap music at evening concert without holding back. This scene can only be witnessed at Women's Conference and no where else in the world. Same said females standing in unison as an apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ enters as silence sweeps entire building and standing during closing hymn as tears well up in many eyes.

5. Nearly 20,000 women suffering from sleep deprivation from staying up until 3 a.m. and arising at 6 a.m. in order to get back to campus on time for next day's conference. Sleep deprivation causes some to laugh like a loose cannon at very non-funny things and near wetting of pants as mascara runs down face with tears of uncontrollable laughter.

6. A ginormous group of the female gender listening attentively to speaker after speaker while they multi task with either piously taking detailed notes of the speaker, crocheting, knitting, needle-work, baby blanket making, quilt stitching, altering entire prom dresses in lap, catching up on their backed up hemming pile, texting on cell phone, planning next month's menu, snarfing large amounts of chocolate, kettle corn, or cinnamon roasted almonds, writing letters to their missionary, taking a cat nap, sneaking off to go use restroom in order to avoid waiting in a line that reaches around the entire Marriott Center, removing shoes and then massaging sore and tired feet, popping large amounts of Tylenol, Advil, and Tic Tacs, sneaking a sip of Coke, Pepsi, Mt. Dew, or Dr. Pepper (you know who you are!) they have hidden in their large tote bag in order to stay awake, wondering if that other class they wanted to attend would have been better, squeezing Visine eye-drops into their eyes with the promise of getting the red out, thinking about all that laundry that will be awaiting them upon their arrival back home, and of course thinking about how grateful they are to have such wonderful women friends they can be together with for two days!!!!

I'm already counting down the days for next year!!!!

Serenity Sunday ~ Thoughts on Christ

Here is a video I should have posted on Easter Sunday, but it is good at ANY time of year.

This is Elder Jeffrery R. Holland's wonderful Easter message. Enjoy!

Remember to pause my playlist at the bottom!



Have a Serene Sunday... enjoying the tranquil moments in a busy world.