Mother's Day 2010

Over the past a few years Mommy has been receiving presents on Mother’s Day. Sometimes it was a little card. Sometimes it was a flower. Sometimes it was a craft. Sometimes it was a poem. Mommy was always happy when she received those presents.

This year Gabby made Mommy a card. Inside the card was Gabby's handprint along with the following poem:

Sometimes you get discouraged
Because I am so small
And always leave my fingerprints
On furniture and walls.

But every day I'm growing
I'll be grown some day
And all those tiny handprints
Will surely fade away.

So here's a little handprint
Just so you can recall
Exactly how my fingers looked
When I was very small.

The card and poem were so sweet! Rebecca wrote Mommy a book. It was the product of her animal research project. Mommy knew her class had been working on the project since they returned to school after the spring break. Mommy was very surprised to see the book. It looked so nice. At the first sight she thought it was borrowed from the library. It had hard covers on which there were beautiful illustrations drawn meticulously with non-smudge crayons. On the front cover the title “The Fennec Fox” was written in bold and all the letters were colored. The table of contents of the book was written as follows:

Chapter 1 - Introduction
Chapter 2 - Animal Description
Chapter 3 - Habitat
Chapter 4 - Animal's Diet
Chapter 5 - Enemies/Predators
Chapter 6 - Survival Status
Chapter 7 - Animal Babies (Reproduction)
Chapter 8 - Behavior
Chapter 9 - Adaptations
Chapter 10 - Interesting or Unusal Facts
Chapter 11 - About the Author

Each chapter had illustrations to go with the contents. At “About the Author” there was Rebecca's school photo. Rebecca told Mommy that to write this book she did research on the internet and note taking first, then drafting, editing, publishing, and illustrating. Wow! That was a lot of work! Rebecca put Mommy's picture at the back of the front cover. Below the picture she wrote the following:

I dedicate this book to my Mom because it's Mother's Day and I want to show that I love her.

It is nice to receive Mother’s Day presents, and being a mother itself is very nice, too. Mommy wished for Rebecca and Gabby. She loves them unconditionally. Every day they give Mommy a lot of joy and fun. They are the greatest presents to her.

[Psalm 127:3] Sons are a heritage from the LORD, children a reward from him.