Each year we celebrate Mother's Day differently. Some years it was staying at home with Mike caring for the younger children and I just had the "day off". Other years, we went to the beach for Hadassah's volleyball tournament or to the Club for a brunch. Whatever it was, it was special! This year was very fun too!!!! I got a text from a family from church and invited us to join them for a Mother's Day together! We are still having church at home and watching the sermons online. We appreciate this so much but are really ready to gather with our church family at church again! Maybe that will happen soon!?! Anyway, it ended up being three families going to Blue Marsh!!!!
The men organized the food for lunch and supper! All I had to do was cut up some veggies and ride along! We met Sunday forenoon but got a text from Darlene that Dave is not well and having major stomach pains. We prayed for him and hoped they could still join us! It ended up just being our family and Merv & Juanita and their family because Dave went to the hospital with appendicitis. Surgery happened the next morning.
We still had a great time and got to have some of the Flaud children with us. We arrived at the park and had lunch. The sun was shining and we went hiking! It was fun to hike to a dam and watch the children skip rocks over the water. Hadassah and Jeremiah hiked with us! The older kids hiked ahead of us parents and it was just good to be outside enjoying nature and fresh air and sunny skies! Merv filled up his "trash can" with supper ingredients and had it cooking over hot coals while we hiked! Supper was ready for us soon after we got back from hiking and he served us shrimp, potatoes, green beans and cabbage and sausage right out of the can!!!!! It was tasty and we totally enjoyed the day together at Blue Marsh!!!!
We got back home and we were all tired. My family blessed me today and I love them so much!!!! Mothering is the best gift God gave to me!!!
Happy Mother's Day to my mom and all the other moms in the world!!!
