The day I drank an entire cup of coffee without it getting cold...

If any of you out there are mothers, (by the way, you rock - and don't let anyone ever tell you differently) and are coffee drinkers, you understand the value of being able to, in one sitting, drink a full cup of hot coffee. I can't tell you how many times I have poured the perfect cup and then 3 hours later, find it sitting in some obscure place with only two sips taken out. Life happens - and it happens FAST when you've got little people in your house. I just wanted to say that on Saturday, my precious boys let me sleep until 8:30 and then brought me coffee in bed - they told me they loved me and then they LEFT and I got to drink the WHOLE CUP HOT!! I sat quietly, ALONE, in my bedroom and drank in, literally and figuratively, the preciousness of the moment. Since Sundays are a work day for me, the boys were giving me Mother's Day early - and not just a day, but what a weekend it turned out to be! Here are the highlights:

• drank an entire cup of hot coffee served in bed in my favorite Hawaii mug
• slept until 8:30 (WHAT??!! I have children!!!)
• went to a picnic to celebrate a friend coming home from Afghanistan - been gone 18mos.
• got to sing about being a mom at church on Sat. PM, Sun. AM and Sun. PM
• held my baby who was burning up with fever and remember never feeling more like a mom
• had dinner, thoughtful and funny gifts and cards waiting on me when I got home from church
• my sweet Ethan fixed lunch for everyone on Sunday afternoon all by himself- ham and cheese sandwiches... the best I've ever had. He said I had to "get out of the kitchen - it's your special day and I'm fixing lunch!"
• my husband cleaned the entire house
• got to watch my boys play in the yard while sitting on the back porch ENJOYING ANOTHER CUP OF HOT COFFEE!!!
• received flowers from some precious family friends
• went out to dinner after church on Sunday evening - I haven't cooked in DAYS!!
• came home, Greg put the boys to bed and I got to relax the rest of the evening

Now THAT'S what I call a Mother's Day. Thanks, boys. This mommy will never forget it.