My Special Mother's Day

So, this year has been such a wonderful Mother's Day weekend. I ran my first 5K ( see post below). But my real Mother's Day began even before that. It began on Wednesday night. I had my RS presidency meeting and Gary wouldn't let me go. He was stalling and wouldn't give me my keys, etc... Justin and him were trying to get me to skip my meeting. Finally, I was getting angry and he told me that Jared had a special gift for me and that I had to stay there for it. A little while later, this darling girl comes to our door. Gary asks her in and she comes to ask me if I am Jared's MaMa... I told her that I was.... She said that she had a special gift for me. She lives in Metz, France, where Jared is serving right now. Her family feeds the missionaries weekly, and she got the opportunity to be a foreign exchange student and come to America..... She is staying with a family , where??? Tooele!!! Of all of the places in America that she could have came to, it was Tooele Utah. When Jared found out that she was coming here, he wrote a special Mother's Day letter for me in French and had her translate it for me. It was just beautiful. I cried the whole time she was reading it. I could not believe that this beautiful young lady would take time out of her schedule and do this for a missionary's family, especially his mom. She told me that Jared told her that I would cry when I saw her... and he was right!!! She told me that he is so good and that he is wonderful and that he loves me so much. I loved her visit with us. She stayed almost 2 hours. I want her to come back. She likes to scrapbook, and says that it's so expensive in France. You can be sure that before she goes home, I will fill her bag with lots of supplies to scrapbook with. We even gave her Mountain Dew ( Jared said that she needed to experience that and Root Beer!) She really liked the Mtn Dew. She was just darling.

On Sunday, we had a wonderful day. Gary made me my fav breakfast snack, and that was followed by my all new favorite items, Willow Tree figurines. Then church, and we left after Sacrament to get our phone call. Justin and Jenna made sure that I had a wonderful lunch, and Josh had to work all night and he called wished me a Happy Mother's Day and gave me a wonderful facebook greeting before he went to sleep. The long awaited phone call was amazing and I loved every second of our hour and 15 minute phone call. Jared sounded so good. It was wonderful to hear his voice. It was the best possible medicine for my heart. Then we watched a great movie and I had a scrumptious dinner. I was full, happy and satisfied. And isn't that what it's all about??? Being a mom is the best job that I've ever had. It's the only thing that I've ever wanted to do... and I'm in love with all of my kids. It's the best job in the whole world!