{ Blog 365 #134 - Mother's Day }

 

{ Mother's Day Sunday }

I wanted to come in today, very quickly, just to wish you all a Happy Mother's Day.  Hope you've all had a wonderful day with your loved ones :)

I've had a super day, woke up to a gift from my daughter and the sweetest most precious letter.  It made me cry so much.  We always wonder if we're being good parents, if we're doing the right thing and raising our children the best way we can, so when they tell us or show us that what we've done is not only enough but seen, appreciated and loved, it means the world.

I think it's safe to say that my daughter knows me pretty well.  The candle smells amazing and so do the soaps.  I don't know about the tea yet, I'm going to have a cup tonight before bed but I'll be sure to let you know what I thought in tomorrow's post.

It started with church the very first thing this morning, and today's sermon was absolutely brilliant.

My wonderful husband also went and got me breakfast and donuts this morning, and then my daughter bought us all Domino's pizza for dinner.  It was the perfect day.

Surrounded by my husband and children, spent doing what I wanted to do which wasn't much aside from some tinkering around in the veggie garden. 

Yes, it was a good day.

{ Happy Mother's Day }

Twenty years ago, I joined the mother's club.

The Lord had seen fit to give me the responsibility of birthing and raising two human beings, two little lives that I would guide through life, love and nurture.

I am incredibly blessed with the two children that I have.  I often look at old photos like these and I miss the times when they were little and needed me more, or rather, needed me differently, because even though they are now 20 and 16, they still need me in different ways and I'm only too happy to be here for whatever that may be.

{ Bake me a Wish - Mother's Day Monday Giveaway }

Contest is over....thank you all who entered!

I am such a sucker for cake and especially for chocolate!

So when I got an email from Bake me a Wish asking if I wanted to participate in a special Mother's Day Bake me a Wish Giveaway, I said YES, of course, I mean, I love cake BUT more than that, I love what this company does.

Bake Me a Wish! is the premium nationwide service for delivery of gourmet birthday cakes. Our cakes are made with only the finest, freshest ingredients by an award-winning family run New York bakery that also supplies pastries to some of Manhattan’s most elite restaurants.

They also have a great program called Operation Birthday Cake where 5 % of your order goes towards Operation Birthday Cake which partnered with Soldier's Angels donates a birthday cake each month to soldier's overseas.

It's easy to get caught up in our own lives and to sometimes forget that we have soldiers overseas, far away from family, fighting in a war and many times their birthday's go unnoticed. So to know that there is a company out there willing to bring a little bit of happiness to their lives is touching. As a military wife, I thank them from the bottom of my heart!

For more information on Bake me a Wish, be sure to check out their website, their blog, their twitter and their Facebook page.

After agreeing to do this, I was shocked that a day later, I had a knock at the door and there stood the UPS man with a box for me. Inside it was the most delicious, decadent chocolate cake I have ever come across.

It came packaged in dry ice, perfectly wrapped and looking delicious.

Triple Chocolate Enrobed Brownie Cake. MY WORD!

It lasted exactly two days in my household....yeah, two days before everything was gone but the pretty box it came in.

Which brings me to Mother's Day, just around the corner, and imagine what a perfect gift this would make? Like the Mother's Day Cakes from Bake Me A Wish. Just go take a look and tell me your mom would not love one of those.

For ALL Mother's Day Cakes sold, Bake me a Wish will be giving 5% of SALES to support Rosie O'Donnell's charity-- Rosie's Broadway Kids.

To celebrate Mother’s Day Monday, Bake Me A Wish is giving away free cakes and if you want a chance to win, there are quite a few ways to do so.

Here's how you too can win a cake for yourself or your Mom:

--- Head over to the Bake me a Wish website, browse their cakes, then come back, leave me a comment and tell me which cake you would love to win. Don't forget to leave me an email or a way to contact you. It is open to US residents only and I will draw a winner on May 7th, 2010.
The winner will have 2 days to contact me with their info, or I will have to draw another winner.

--- You can also win a cake on any of the participating Mother's Day Monday blogs, just go on over to (The Thrifty and Chic Mom, Experimental Mommy, Eighty MPH Mom, Shop With Me Mama)

--- Go on over to the Bake me a Wish blog and leave a comment on their Mother's Day Monday Giveaway post.

--- The Bake me a Wish Facebook page is also giving away a cake this week, all you need to do is tell them your best story about your mom and cake! Preference given to answers that are funny, engaging or touching.

--- Extra giveaway for bloggers who have been blogging for over a year, you can do your own post about this giveaway and then go on over to the Bake me a wish blog and enter your link in their 05/03 post.

Contest ends at 11:59pm CST on May 7th. Good Luck!

I was not compensated for this review other than a product sample provided by Bake Me a Wish. All opinions are 100% mine.

Happy Mother's Day!!!

Image credit: Moonlight & Roses

I shouldn't even be on the computer because I'm spending time with the family BUT I could not just stay away and not come in to wish my Mom, Stepmom and Grandmothers as well as SIL's and MIL AND my bloggy Mom friends, a wonderful wonderful wonderful Happy Mother's Day.


M-O-T-H-E-R

"M" is for the million things she gave me,
"O" means only that she's growing old,
"T" is for the tears she shed to save me,
"H" is for her heart of purest gold;
"E" is for her eyes, with love-light shining,

"R" means right, and right she'll always be,
Put them all together, they spell
"MOTHER,"
A word that means the world to me.

Howard Johnson (c. 1915)

Every single one of you have touched my life in one way or another, and I do mean everyone, even the bloggy friends that I have never met personally.

You bring a smile to my face everyday and you've been there with me through the ups and downs, the laughs and the joys of being a mom, but I know that we all have one thing in common, no matter how tough things may get and no matter how many days we have where the only thing we want to do is pull our hair out and run for the hills, WE WOULDN'T TRADE IT FOR ANYTHING IN THE WORLD.

So I hope each and every one of you have a blessed and wonderful Mother's Day....hope you're

sleeping in and being brought breakfast in bed, getting tons of hugs and kisses and handmade cards and pictures from your little ones (or big ones)....and most of all I hope you know how special you all are!!!

Curt and the kids fixed breakfast for me this morning and then Curt and I got to sit at the kitchen table, sipping coffee and playing a game of cards.....PERFECT!

Curt then presented me with tons of jewellery, I got a tennis diamond bracelet and a matching diamond mom necklace, a Tiffany Style Heart Necklace and matching bracelet (like the one Jennifer Aniston wore on Friends)

A rope chain necklace and diamond earrings.....yeah, I couldn't believe how many beautiful pieces I got. Isn't he just a wonderful husband?

Jasmine showered me with handmade gifts she had been working on for weeks, literally, I'm not joking :) She gave me crafts made at school and things she put together on her own....needless to say I had a good cry.

Nicholas gave me the biggest hug on earth when he saw me this morning and without any coaxing from anyone, said "Happy Momma's Day".....then he broke my heart, not in a bad way, but when everyone started talking about gifts, he started bawling because he hadn't bought me anything. Is there anything more heartbreaking than that??? WE got to hug for a long time while he cried about "I didn't get anything for you", so daddy told him he'll take him to the store this afternoon and he can pick whatever he wants to give mommy....his reply "LOTS of big candy"...THAT'S MY BOY! LOL

So I'm spending my day watching movies, reading books and doing whatever I want to, yes it's MY day and I've earned it, I've worked hard for 363 days out of the year just to have this one day for myself, to be the boss, to let my hair down and eat extra cookies if I want to....*sigh*

I'm going to leave you with some pictures I took yesterday afternoon when we went for a drive, we just jumped in the car and drove, sometimes it feels great to do that, no time restraints, no rushing to be somewhere or worries about things left hanging while we drive....try it sometime, you'll be surprised at how much fun it is and how good for the soul.

Have a great day!

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