Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day 2011!

Well, we just had a nice Mother's Day dinner with some fillets, homemade bread, corn on the cob, salad and sparkling grape juice...and now Patty is asleep on the couch so I thought it would be a good time to hijack her blog to post for Mother's Day.

Patty is a fantastic mother to Anna Kate is so many ways. It has been evident this past year that while Patty doesn't have a full-time paid job outside our home, she does have a full-time job. Off the top of my head, here are just some of the things she does in a typical week:

• Take Anna Kate to library story time
• Read probably six dozen stories to Anna Kate
• Try to sooth an irritable baby girl whose molars are starting to poke through
• Get up in the middle of the night once or twice to sooth the teeth pain away
• Clean the house several times
  
• Do 15 loads of laundry (they add up with cloth diapers!)
• Fold and put away all 15 loads of a laundry
• Practice and play in our church's praise band
  
• Go shopping for all our groceries
• Cook dinner almost every night
• Teach Sunday school for our middle school students
• Help with music for our student ministry on Wednesday nights
• Teach Anna Kate songs about the Christian faith
• Bring my lunch to me when I forget it! (which happens more often than I would like to admit)
• Help with our youth activities
• Take Anna Kate to the park on an almost daily basis
• Try to teach and discipline Anna Kate in the way that she should act and behave
  

And all of this, while 17 weeks pregnant! I know there are a ton more that I will think about after I finish this post, but the list is truly overwhelming. Needless to say, Anna Kate and I are very grateful to have such a wonderful woman in our life. Thank you, Patty, and Happy Mother's Day!