I recently attended funeral services for a dear client of mine Mrs. Kathy Broich. Kathy was not only a client but my girls reading teacher and friend. She was a wonderful women with a great zest for life that was shortened by ovarian cancer. At Kathy's funeral a poem was read that was written by her.
It talked about how we are always in a hurry, telling our children to hurry up and get dressed, hurry up and get in the car, hurry-up, hurry-up...! I realized that I have become one of these moms who can be guilty of the"hurry-ups" and not enough of"taking time to smell the roses"!
A couple of weeks ago when all of the beautiful wild flowers began to bloom I commented to my girls how pretty they were. Since then, I have received several bunches of wild flowers from my sweeties! Today, Sabrie brought me one little single wild flower. I was working at the computer at the time she interrupted me, I first thought of saying "just a minute". Suddenly, I reminded of the "hurry-up" poem. I stopped what I was doing and said "WOW, what a beautiful flower sweetheart"! I asked her if I could take a picture of this flower and asked her to place it in a small vase so we could all enjoy it"! Her sweet little face just lit -up with satisfaction.
Thank you Mrs. Broich for reminding me to take time to appreciate all of life's gifts! Big and small!
Jennifer
This is a post for Maraena. Hi Maraena, it's me, Chad. I wanted to get back to you about the post you left for me last week. Before I do though, I have to say thank you so much for writing. It was really good to hear from you.
ReplyDeleteAbout the visit to Des Moines. I am not sure when we will be able to visit, but I do not that I would really love to and that it would be an amazing time. I really want to see you, your sisters and your parents. I miss you guys. If I find out when I will be in the area, I promise I will let you know so we can all spend time together. Plus, Tasha really wants to meet you guys.
Now, in regards to naming our child, Peanut, we actually are not going to name the baby Peanut. We only call the baby Peanut because we do not know if the baby is going to be a boy or girl. Peanut is a gender neutral name and it's pretty cute so that is what we call him/her until we can determine a name. We go the 17th of this month to find out if Peanut is a boy or a girl so we are extremely excited to find out. We have some great ideas for names, but if you or your sisters have any great ideas, please let us know. Since you all have such amazing names, maybe you can come up with some pretty fantastic names. I look forward to hearing back from you and I love you guys. Please give everyone a BIG hug for me.
CG