Mothers Day

Most of the Mothers' days that I have had since becoming a mother have passed by uneventfully. Dean has so often been overseas, or out of town, or just working, and my kids have been young enough that they wouldn't really take the initiative to do anything special for mothers' day. I've been okay with that. I never expected anything, so I was never disappointed.
This mothers' day has been different. Dean let me sleep in yesterday morning, since he knew we would have to be up early for church today. I got to sleep in until about 8:30, which is longer than I've slept in in ages. Then this morning, he got up early, and made me breakfast, and the kids each made me a card. It was really nice.
At church I got a tomato plant. I much prefer those kinds of plants over flowers. Flowers are nice, but I'd take tomatoes any day.

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