Happy Mom's Day To Me

Today has been a special day.  It began with going to church with my three kiddos and husband.  I'll come back to the church story at the end of this post.

After church, Matt and the kids sat me down and proceeded to give me mother's day cards and gifts.  Matt picks out good cards.  Funny ones.  I sent him to the store the other day to pick out a card for my mom.  I couldn't go because of jury duty this week (I'll tell you that incredible story another day).  I told him to pick out a "pretty" card because that is what I like to give to my mom.  Target has tons of pretty cards with embellishments on them.  He must have passed right by those or didn't see them because he came home with one that was just okay.  Nothing special.  Flowers and a nice sentiment inside.  Not the "pretty" card I had in mind.  But Matt is awesome when it comes to finding just the right funny card!  And that's what he bought for me again this year.  I love them.

Here is the first gift I opened.

I love Ree Drummond!  I have her first cookbook, and I've been meaning to buy her new one.  Thanks, Matt and kids.  We'll be fixin' up lots of new grub.

Then I opened this heavy thing.

I've been wanting one of these too.  A cast iron skillet.  Matt said he and the kids would be using it today to make me lunch.  Using PW's recipes, they made me delicious eggs benedict and breakfast potatoes.  It was goooood.  

To top it all off, Matt surprised me with a much needed gift.  My old one was tired and worn out.  It wasn't working right anymore.  This little gadget will certainly be put to good use.  Especially next year when...  I'll tell you about that another day!

I have beautiful kids.  I love being a mom.  It's what I was meant to be.  

And so back to what happened at church today...  I was released from my beloved calling of Young Women president.  I've been in the YW program here in the Meridian 5th Ward for the past 5 years. I was the beehive 2nd counselor for 2 1/2 years before I was called to be the YW president.  I've loved it and have worked my tail off for those wonderful girls.  Right now we have about 34 girls... 22 of which are beehives!

Here's a pic from last summer's mountain retreat with half of the girls.

But change needed to happen, and so I spoke with the bishop about it a couple of months ago.  I figured that he would wait until after stake girls' camp in June, but a couple of weeks ago he told me that they have a new YW president called.  So, today it finally happened.  The transition was sweetly made with some heart-felt words and a few tears.  I will miss being with the YW.  And I'm a little nervous as to where I will be asked to serve next.  I have only been in YW and primary for the past 15 years.  I'm not sure how I will cope if I am in Relief Society.  It's been since I lived in Kirksville that I   served in RS.  It will take some adjusting.  But change is good and is needed for growth.  I think I'll be growing a lot this coming year.