To start off this post, I just want to add a disclaimer. I have an amazing husband who just doesn’t usually care very much about “special” days. Whether it be for him or for someone else, he thinks they are stupid. So when mother’s day, or any other holiday comes around, he tries to make it special for who ever we are celebrating, but I have come to the place where I don’t expect a card or a gift, and take his verbal recognition of the day, and be happy with that. This doesn’t mean that he doesn’t do anything ever, he just likes to make things special on ordinary days when Hallmark is not telling him to. Which I love because any woman knows how much an unexpected gesture means. The cool thing about that is that when he does something on a “special” day, it becomes an unexpected gesture. Which brings me to yesterday….
Actually it brings me to Saturday really… We worked on the house as per usual for most of the day, but I had to leave him upstairs to work alone as I needed to go downstairs and get ready for work. I was on the worship team so I need to get to church 2 hours earlier than my family. I was expecting that Ryan would work at the house until the last possible minute and probably show up a few minutes late for church. That’s what happens every weekend, so why would this one be different? Especially given the fact that he had to get both of our kids ready as well. So when they walked in a few minutes late to church, I was not surprised in the least.
I was surprised to find out that he had actually gone to Costco before church. How did he manage that?! He must have left the house earlier than I thought. Then when he wanted me to drive his car home, and he would take the kids in the Outlander that he brought to church… I was even more surprised. It’s not that we never drive each other’s vehicles, but his car is a standard, and I don’t mesh super well with standards. They like to stall on me. (Okay, okay… I admit that I stall them.) ANYWAY….. so I drove his car home, and he came home after me. Why? Because he washed my car. That in itself was sweet. Then when he got home, and I was putting the kids to bed he was running around the house in a secretive manner. At this point I realized that he was doing something for me on mother’s day, and I was touched. He usually says “Happy Mother’s Day!” and prepares a bowl of cereal for me.
Fast forward to mother’s day morning at 6:50. I was woken up to the sound of rustling cellophane from the general direction of Jenna’s room. Usually I would be the one to get up and tell her to get back into bed until at least 8:00. When I went to get up, Ryan stopped me and he went in. After which I heard the cellophane moving again, and then silence. Ryan came back into bed, and we rolled over and went back to sleep. Thankfully so did Jenna. Move the clock forward to 8:40am. Now I am waking up again, (Yes a huge part of my mother’s day bliss was sleeping in! I know that was completely lucky!) to Jenna barreling into my room carrying 2 dozen red roses that she chose herself to give to me for mother’s day. This excitement didn’t even match her Christmas morning excitement… it surpassed it. She was THRILLED to give me her flowers. That was the best part of it. her excitement. The flowers are beautiful, and smell amazing, but Jenna’s excitement was the best part. I love the fact that she has already tapped into the “better to give than receive” lesson. Until that afternoon came around, and she gave me a rose that a show home was giving away, and 10 minutes later decided it was actually her flower, not mine. LOL! We added it to the roses at home.
To make a long story short, or longer I guess, I had an awesome mother’s day. Enjoyed a delicious lunch out complete with Lemon Orzo soup… mmmmm! (One of the greatest things about Saskatoon is the greek restaurants and their lemon soups!) Then spent the afternoon hanging out with our family. What a great day.
I hope all the other moms out there had a happy Mother’s day!
P.S. for Heather….. I especially hope that you had a great mother’s day. I hope that you were able to feel Nathan’s love for you, and that Hailey and Ben made the day one worth remembering! (((HUGS!)))
