Mother's Day

Today is Mother’s Day.

In our house anyway!

We don’t make any fuss over holidays like Valentine’s, Mothers’ Day, Fathers’ Day, Halloween, etc. And I reminded my children of that when I heard they’d been told that Mothers’ Day was coming soon and they needed to be planning something special for me.

Actually, Mothers’ Day is only next Sunday (in South Africa and other southern hemisphere countries!) but Dieter didn’t believe me when I mentioned it this morning. The more I think about it the more I like that they’ve got the date wrong because I genuinely feel we should honour each other often, almost every day if we can can. I don’t mean that we should be buying special gifts and making a party of each day of the year, I don’t value the commercialism that’s become the symbol of every celebration and holiday. I think we’re missing something when we have to set aside a special day to honour Mothers, Fathers, Teachers, Bosses.

Dieter and the children spent a large part of the day yesterday making me some lovely wall hangings with bark,shells, seeds and coloured rocks – they are truly beautiful and each child presented their gift to me this morning with much love and pride. Its wonderful that they spent their time together (while Aimee and I were at the baby shower) making something so creative and special.

I am very loved and appreciated by my beautiful children and husband. And I’m being very spoiled today – from sunrise to sunset! And I’m so very grateful!