I have to thank my nephew "Z" for this post. Last night I asked "Z" if he knew who I was. He looked at me and said "
Somebody's mom". We had not seen him since last November when he was not yet two, so to remember my name it was not going to happen.
Then last night at two in the morning while I was sick, tired and feeding Trey I thought about that conversation and
what it meant to be "
somebody's mom". Thank you "Z". Here it goes, if it is rambling forgive me, Tech just won (Wreck 'em Tech), it is late, I have a fever, feeding Trey, and tired.
Really moms out there, is there anything better than being
somebody's mom? We have these beautiful spirits that
Heavenly Father
entrusted us with. For those of you who have a child, or a family member at war this is how I think our Father in Heaven feels. We send them off to fight a mighty foe and pray that they return.We send them to camps to prepare them and they are given the best weapons to defend themselves, and others. Then we pray. We wait by the phone or computer to hear from them. We count down days till they all come home. Most do come back, but some don't. Our Father in Heaven sends us away to fight the
mightiest of foes (Satan). He sends us to our mothers and it is our job to prepare them to return home. We teach them to pray to Him so He knows we are okay and He can give the guidance only He can. I am sure He cries when we forget Him and what Christ did for us. We try to arm them with the best weapon a strong testimony of Him, and His son Jesus Christ. And then along with Him we pray. We pray that we as mothers did enough and that our children are the brave strong soldiers we teach them to be. We hope they remember early morning scripture study, family
prayer, and
Family home Evening. Most come home, but some don't. And oh how He must
ache for those that don't because He loves each of us and, like mothers, He wants His family to be together forever.
Don't we have a great
responsibility as mothers? It is our job to get them back to Him. They come to us so perfect, after all they just left Him. No wonder we cry when we first see them. It is amazing to think that we can fall in love so hard. Now that is love at first sight. We love them, teach them and pray that they
return to Him.
Here is Trey's 3 month update. He is such a good baby. He is now sleeping 5-6 hours at night. He laughed for the first time last night. His big brother and sister love him very much, sometimes too much. He is such a blessing to our family.
We love Halloween at our house (except dad but one day that will change). It's my favorite holiday and now that I have kids we have Halloween traditions. For Family Home Evening the week of Halloween we carve our pumpkins and we have Chili and corn bread for dinner on Halloween night. This year we made pumpkin pancakes for dinner on carving night.
