Amazing Mother's Day letter Hubby wrote!

Happy Mother's Day 2014! Look, I know you said not to get you anything, and I almost believed you, but then I thought about this past year. I think of all years, this is the one you deserve the most for so far. This is the year you fought off the purple minions, both real and imagined, with your hugs and your tears. This is the year you watched our son fight in a silent civil war, seeing the damage of cannon balls, but never hearing the blasts and unsure of where they came from and what to do about them. It's the year you had to take out of of the first pieces of the puzzle in the picture of our family.life. 

This year was hard.

K left the Hundred Acre Woods.
You spent most of the first half away.
S is starting to open up and discovering who he is, any day now he is gonna start testing limits.

But, before you start to think this letter is a downer, I have to tell you. It's when they are away from us that you see your greatest influence. K is a reflection of your strength and excitement, of every upbeat and happy, exploitative aspect I remember seeing in you at camp. She loves and feels so fully. She's all in. And she gets that from you. Cause that's the type of person you really are. Never half assing anything. Sometimes, you forget that, I think, or at least let yourself get distracted.

S's harder. S wants so bad to be good enough. I think he wants to impress you more than he wants to impress me. He wants to fit in with you so bad that I see this disappointment when he thinks he's let you down. He loves guns and he's no interest in a lot of the abstract creativity that I come with. His love is in the concrete, what is real, what he can see, what he can touch, act upon, and consciencely react to. This is also a reflection of you.

Here's the thing. Our kids go out into the world on a daily basis. They interact with people of all walks of life, and they perform amazingly. We are constantly told that they are well-behaved, smart, inquisitive, and a joy to be around and over all some of the best children to be around... and it's because of you. I followed your lead, cause, well, I had no idea what I was doing in the beginning.

Our kids are reflections of the good job you're doing. From the size of the tantrums and slamming doors, to the joy and happiness they get from putting a hole in a target, they hold up a mirror for you to see some of yourself in them.

So this year has been the hardest so far. We have a roof. The kids lack for nothing they need. THey know you love them and they see you modeling a Biblical mother and wife for them. K knows she can crawl into bed with you and everything will be alright. S knows he can come to you when he finds a passage in a book he's reading because he knows of your love for words and books. This is because of you.

So, while this wasn't big, extravagant, or expensive; I hope this is good enough for Mother's Day. It isn't much, I expected to do more, a drawing or a gift, but this will have to do.

Happy Mother's Day.