Dear Jack, Marian, Lucy, Grant, and Gracie, Mother's Day was awesome! Thank you for helping dad make a delicious breakfast. Thank you Jack for setting the table so nicely. Thank you Marian for making the hot chocolate extra chocolatey...just the way I like it! Thank you Lucy for the pile of pictures and cards! Thank you Grant for not breaking anything or throwing food during breakfast! Thank you Gracie for singing "Happy Mother's Day to Mary" to the tune of Happy Birthday all morning long. (but feel free to go back to calling me mom any time now!)
You are great kids and I'm pretty sure I don't tell you often enough how much I appreciate all the things you do!
Jack- thank you for taking out the trash EVERY.SINGLE. DAY. You are such a good sport about it...even when the bathroom trash is overflowing with pull-ups and diapers! So gross- so glad I don't have to do that! Thank you! Thank you for being a cheerful cello practicer most days and thank you for playing my favorite songs "French Folk Song" and "Rigadoon" whenever I ask. Thank you for always telling me you love be before you leave for school and thank you for wanting to tell me about your day when you get home. Thank you for being my guinea pig child and loving me even when I am a total nutcase! Thank you for mastering the art of Macaroni and Cheese and your newest specialty...waffles! Thank you for always pushing the cart when we go to Costco and for telling me riddles and jokes you made up. Thank you for being the first to ask how you can help when things get hectic and thank you for loving maps like I do! Finally, thank you for making me a mom!
Marian- thank you for having the world's best giggle, If I could bottle one sound and have it forever it would be your giggle! Thank you for being the most cautious tooth puller ever. You have provided me with many nights of entertainment watching you coax your loose teeth out ever so slowly and gently! Thank you for being so organized and being a good example to your brothers and sisters for what a clean room really looks like! Thank you for being so brave! I love watching you do your round-off back handsprings and I am in total shock that you are brave enough to do that! On that note..thank you for having the biggest biceps on the littlest arms I ever did see! Thank you for putting on dance concerts at night after we finish dishes! I LOVE LOVE LOVE watching you dance around with your sisters! Thank you for being a book worm! You remind me of myself when I was your age and it is so fun to see you devour a stack of books every week! Thank you for helping me pick out what clothes to wear when I go out on dates with dad and thank you for having such great style and for being the most fun shopping partner ever!
Lucy- thank you for making me laugh every day! Thank you for being the best big sister Grant and Gracie could ever ask for. Thank you for playing "puppies" with them and getting them to follow you around and do whatever you ask. It's the cutest and makes them so happy! Thank you for being so silly and for making the "dumb face" whenever I need to laugh. Thank you for loving lipstick! Even though I can't find my own lipstick half the time I love seeing how excited you are to wear it! Thank you for writing love notes to everyone all the time! Thank you for using your signature phrase "you are cool and awesome" on every note you write. It makes me smile every time I read it. Thank you for being so excited to read. I love listening to you read your Kindergarten baggie books and now the library books you are starting to read too! Thank you for being such a big BYU fan, it makes your dad so happy! Thank you for texting uncle Rich and other random people in my contacts. It gives me a good giggle to see all the emoji's you use! Thank you for changing your clothes 10 times a day then checking in the mirror for approval each time...ok actually I don't really like that you do that- it drives me crazy but it's cute and it's so you and I don't want to forget that about you.
Grant- Thank you for being a three year old version of Evel Knievel. Every day I get a front row seat to your death defying and destructive antics! Thank you for loving to cuddle! You always ask for me to "hold you" when I put you to bed and I LOVE to sit on the couch in your room and hold you as long as I can. Thank you for being my early morning buddy! No one else seems to want to get up at 6:00 am (myself included really) but it is nice to feel so wanted! Thank you for being so friendly. You have more adult friends at church than I do and it's because you are so much fun to be around. Thank you for having to most amazing dance moves. Our after dinner dance parties would not be the same without your hip shakes and somersaults. Finally thank you for miraculously having made it this far without any broken bones or even stitches. You ride your scooter like an X-game competitor, launch yourself off of heights and into walls yet somehow you have managed to stay in one piece. THANK YOU and keep it up!
Gracie- Thank you for being my little buddy. Whenever I am working on a project or cleaning the house you play quietly near me or just chat with me while I work. Thank you for being a little mommy to Grant and keeping him in line...no easy task. Thank you for being willing to drink out of cups that are not purple. This is a recent development and has improved my quality of life drastically. Thank you for sneaking off with my iphone to have your own private dance parties! You have to sweetest little moves when you think no one is watching. Thank you for being a rule follower when it comes to scooter rides. I can always count on you to stay close by and not take off for the state border like other twins I know. Thank you for loving the gangster style Boston hat and insisting to wear it all the time. Although I would prefer pigtails and bows, you look awesome in the hat and the fact that you love it SO much makes me smile. Thank you for singing the Daniel Tiger song about not losing your temper when your mom maybe...sometimes ...every once in a while ...might start to lose her cool. Thank you for still falling asleep in my arms when I rock you in the rocking chair. It doesn't happen all the time, but when it does, it is the happiest magic I know.
Thanks kids for being the five people most likely to make me LOSE MY MIND while still managing to be my five favorite little people on earth. I am so grateful to have you in my life and am so glad I get to be your mom.
