Mother's day

This year I wanted to do something special for both of our Mom's this Mother's day.  They are both wonderful mother's, and I'm so grateful to have them in our lives.  My Mom has been going through a hard time, Matt's Mom has been struggling with her health for years.  She hasn't been doing to well. She's at a point where the doctors can no longer do anything for her.  I came across this saying: When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile.  I knew I wanted to do something with that saying.  I also wanted to do something with President Uchtdorfs talk about the forget me  nots.  We decided to say you are not forgotten with some forget me not flowers.  I wanted to make them into magnets. Matt and I found some clear shower tiles and glued strong magnets on the back of them.  Then we used Matt's vinyl cutter and printed out the sayings and put the vinyl words onto the magnets.

This is what the finished project looked like.  I think they turned out pretty good.

We also came up with a list of words describing them with each letter of their first and last name.  They both loved their gifts.  On Mother's day we were able to go and have dinner at my Mom's house.  I was going to invite her over to our house, but she wanted to make me a birthday dinner.  She was having her siblings over for dinner and she was making cafe rio burritos.  She said she would have lot's of leftovers.  I was good with that.

When we got home from church my Mom called.  I missed the call though.  I listened to her voice message.  She had me worried when I listened to it.  I thought somebody was hurt really bad, or dying.  I called her back, and she didn't answer.  I tried again, and she picked up.  She told me she was in the emergency room.  She said she had fallen.  I got nervous.  Then she gave me the full story.  She was out working in her yard on Saturday.  She stood up to fast and got dizzy.  She fell onto a patch of flowers that had some dead wood in it.  She got a sliver that she couldn't get out.

Normally she wouldn't make a big deal about it, but she was going to Georgia later in the week, and knew that something would happen.  She didn't want to risk it, so after her church got over whe went to a after hrs. clinic.  they said they couldn't do anything for her and x-ray wouldn't be able to show where the sliver was.  They sent her to the emergency room at the U hospital.  They numbed her leg, and dug around and couldn't find anything.  Then the doctor proceeds to tell her that normally the body will push the sliver out on it's own.  She was like well why did she even come.  If she knew that the body could push it out on it's own she wouldn't have bothered.  She also got a tetnis shot just to be safe.  I'm glad nothing else serious happened to her or anyone else.

While she was at the hospital we went to her house and got a fruit salad made, and got the burritos out ready to reheat them.  Then she came home and she made my birthday cake.  My sweet Mom.  I'm glad she made it home fast.  Quinn was able to come and eat with us.  After eating we watched O brother where art thou.  I loved it!  It was so funny and good.  It was nice to spend the night with my family, Quinn, and my Mom.