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\"HappyI hope everyone had a wonderful Mother’s Day!<\/strong><\/p>\n

I woke up to breakfast made by the kids with the hubby as their diligent assistant, cards, flowers, and lots of hugs and kisses. \u00a0After a full day of\u00a0activities, we had a late dinner at Aberdeen Barn<\/a>. \u00a0Our waiter was from the Caribbean\u00a0(because for some reason wherever I go there is always SOME kind of Caribbean\u00a0connection!) so the hubby and I made a moneyless wager on where he was from. \u00a0He\u00a0chose Barbados, and as always I chose Trinidad – with Guyana as a backup bet.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

For one day a year everyone, from the clerk at the grocery store to the teenager\u00a0in the drive thru taking your order, acknowledges that your job is important. <\/strong><\/p>\n

People say that it is a conspiracy between the greeting card companies, flower\u00a0companies, and restaurants to make a quick buck – especially since lots of moms\u00a0are working overtime at those places and miss Mother’s Day altogether. \u00a0It may\u00a0be – but if we all stopped buying cards and going to overpriced buffets for\u00a0Mother’s Day, and just wrote letters, emails, texts, made phone calls, got on\u00a0Skype, posted on walls on Facebook, sent out loving tweets, and just\u00a0communicated our love for our own mothers (still with us and passed on), people\u00a0who were like mothers to us, and just hard working mothers we know – wouldn’t\u00a0the day be just as special?<\/p>\n

As a mom, I say, YESSIR!<\/strong><\/p>\n

We spent the day at the pool, playing mini-golf, and enjoying each other’s\u00a0company. \u00a0One of best part of the day for me was being there to see Mr. Social\u00a0jump into the pool on his own for the first time.<\/p>\n

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I was there to catch this\u00a0shot of the very last time that he asked the Hubby to catch him. \u00a0Every jump\u00a0after this was on his own.<\/p>\n

Another highlight was all the hugs and kisses I got from my oldest. \u00a0As they get\u00a0older, those hugs and kisses get a little sparse, so a day when they are\u00a0unlimited is priceless.<\/p>\n

Last but not least, at dinner, after we said our grace, the waiter jokingly\u00a0asked baby girl if she prayed for him. \u00a0Well, to her, prayer is not a joke, so\u00a0she promptly dropped her cracker and said a prayer for him. \u00a0After she finished,\u00a0he says, “You know God is good, right?” She gives him an enthusiastic, “Yes he\u00a0is!” and went back to the business that was on her plate.<\/p>\n

All us moms want is to raise confident, loving, praying children. <\/strong> Some of us\u00a0would love a soccer star, a doctor, a lawyer, or an engineer – but at the root\u00a0of it – we just want good kids. \u00a0As much as I love the kindness of strangers\u00a0yelling, “Happy Mother’s Day” across the parking lot, the ultimate thank you\u00a0would come from God looking at the kids that he has charged my husband and I\u00a0with and saying to me – “Well done.”<\/p>\n

Oh, and we both lost – the waiter was from Jamaica.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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