{"id":250,"date":"2006-05-14T20:28:07","date_gmt":"2006-05-15T02:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/2006\/05\/14\/happy-mothers-day\/"},"modified":"2006-05-14T20:28:07","modified_gmt":"2006-05-15T02:28:07","slug":"happy-mothers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=250","title":{"rendered":"Happy Mother&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hope you all had a wonderful Mother&#8217;s Day.  You are wonderful mothers and deserve a great day to celebrate your motherhood.  <\/p>\n<p>9:00 church is not real condusive to Mother&#8217;s day celebrations such as breakfast in bed.  In fact, as I woke one of the girls up and told her to go and shower, she said, &#8220;You are supposed to be in bed!&#8221;.  Well, I couldn&#8217;t really lounge in bed when I had 5 kids to help get ready for church, and shower and look presentable myself.  <\/p>\n<p>We did all get ready in time, although Natalie&#8217;s hair was almost dripping wet.  Wet ponytail for you, girl.  Ryan had to speak in sacrament meeting, so he was up early writing his talk (plan ahead?  I don&#8217;t think so.), and I had to grab a few things for my lesson, but we got there in time.<\/p>\n<p>The kids were relatively good during church, even with no dad sitting with us to keep them in line.  They drew some great Mother&#8217;s day cards and pictures, too.  Ryan&#8217;s talk went well, and several people told me how well he did on his talk.  He said it wasn&#8217;t his best work, but I think he&#8217;s just pleased that it&#8217;s over.  I taught in Relief Society, and that lesson went just fine, too.<\/p>\n<p>After church, the kids presented me with a plethora of school\/primary or achievement day made gifts.  All very cute, and all very sweet.  Jenna gave me a strawberry plant in a decorated pot that said &#8220;I love you Berry much!&#8221;  John gave me an oh so cute new purse (that his clever mommy bought on clearance at&#8211;where else?  Kohl&#8217;s&#8211;for a whopping $2.50 marked down several times from the original $45) that I&#8217;ve just been so excited to use.  I can&#8217;t wait to transfer purse stuff and use it!<\/p>\n<p>Later Ryan&#8217;s parents and sister and her husband came over for a yummy dinner of grilled steak, watermellon, salad and devilled eggs.  For dessert we had rhubarb pie and ice cream.  Delicious!!  I wish you could have come on over and eaten with us. <\/p>\n<p>As a surprise, Ryan got me a food saver for Mother&#8217;s day.  The real surprise is, he didn&#8217;t know he was getting me a food saver, either.    Julene and Italo recieved two for their wedding, and Ryan had told them he would buy one from them, so they wouldn&#8217;t have to return it.  They brought it over tonight, so&#8230;.Surprise!  A Great Mother&#8217;s day gift!<\/p>\n<p>The weather was beautiful, the kids were sweet, Ryan let me have a nice hour and a half nap this afternoon, and  we had a nice evening.  What a wonderful day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope you all had a wonderful Mother&#8217;s Day. You are wonderful mothers and deserve a great day to celebrate your motherhood. 9:00 church is not real condusive to Mother&#8217;s day celebrations such as breakfast in bed. In fact, as I woke one of the girls up and told her to go and shower, she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}