Mother's Day Thoughts

Today was the perfect Mother's Day....almost. My wonderful husband went out and got me breakfast, and he didn't get me just one breakfast but my two favorite indulgent breakfasts - an egg & cheese biscuit and a red velvet doughnut. I ate them both. We went to church, came home and ate a light lunch as I was still quite full from my special breakfast.

Then I did something that I never do. Anyone who knows me can tell you that I never take naps. EVER. I am not a napper. Only when I am very ill am I able to sleep during the day time. However today, while Mike & Sam laid down in the house, I went out to the back yard to take a nap. Yes, my back yard.

When I got home Saturday afternoon finally completing my busiest week of the year, Mike and Sam surprised me with my very own hammock for my back yard. I have been not so subtly mentioning for weeks now how I would love to have a hammock in my yard. I had the perfect place picked out in between 2 trees in the corner of the yard. Did I expect to actually get it? No. :)

But when Sam took me outside for my surprise, I really did almost burst into tears. It was perfect. And they had worked all morning to put it up for me. So today, I took my i-pod out to my brand new hammock, laid down and went to sleep. I slept for an hour; then I was on my stomach playing on my phone, but it was the most relaxed I have been in weeks.

After nap-time, we loaded up and went to P.F. Changs in Chattanooga for a perfect Mother's Day dinner. When we returned home, Sam & I took Charlie, our 6 month old miniature schnauzer, out for a nice long walk.  It really was a wonderful day. I can honestly say it was one of the best Mother's Days I have ever had.

It would have been perfect except for one niggling thought in the back of my head that there was still one thing missing. Somewhere out there I know there is a little girl that God has picked to be in our family. She needs us, and we need her. Maybe by Mother's Day next year she will be here.