Sunday, May 11, 2008

Happy "Smothers" Day


For all you Moms out there - Happy Mother's Day!! If you are fortunate enough to still have your Mother like I am, please be sure and tell her you love her. It's important every day, but especially today!

For my Mom - Happy Mother's Day - I love you very much!! This painting I made for you, Mom, after you saw some of the others that I had done and really liked them, I decided to paint you one based on some of the things I heard you say you liked about the other ones. I didn't realize until I uploaded it that the picture looks a little blown out, but the actual painting is full of rich color!

This is the first year that I was not greeted with "Happy Smother's Day!" from my girls. Now that they are both 5 and 6, they said it correctly this morning, and I have to admit, it made me a little sad. Although I am enjoying watching them grow and mature every day, little things like this remind me just exactly how fast they are growing. I didn't realize how I would get that little twinge of sadness when they both said "Happy Mother's Day!" and not "Happy Smother's Day!" - they are growing just way to fast. It still gives me a warm fuzzy feeling just thinking about them saying it either way, though.

To you Mom - once again, I love you and thank you for all that you do. Through every thing the last few years with my health, and just becoming a Mom myself, I couldn't have done it without you. You give yourself 100% without ever asking for anything in return. To me, that is the epitome of what a Mother is and should be. All those times you would give everything to us and not anything for yourself, I never could understand that. Now that I am a Mom, I understand fully and it makes me appreciate what you did and continue to do even more now than ever. Thank you.

5 comments:

Mare said...

If your Mother reads your blog, she must be bursting with pride and love. Happy Mother's day to you! :)

Terri Stegmiller said...

Hey Stacy Kay, just discovered your blog from over at Shonna's. Very nice layout and love that blog background....makes me wanna stay all day.

Stacy said...

Thank you, ladies for such sweet comments!

Heather said...

That's so precious about 'smother's day'...my little one is one year old...so I pretty much got Mamamamamamama...but its so good to hear!
lovely blog and beautiful art!~

Stacy said...

Aw, thank you so much! I truly miss the days that I heard "Mamamamama" instead!