Best Mother's Day to date!

I am sooooooo happy to say that I was Blessed to celebrate Mother's Day this year with my daughter's! Not only With my daughters, but with them here in our home, in the USA, it's been 8 months since they've been in our home here, so it was the Best mommy's day to date! It's so different this year, compared to previous years where I looked forward to a day to celebrate being rewarded for my job as a mommy by getting a break from the everyday responsibilities that that requires, such as getting breakfast served to Me in bed, or just simply shopping alone, even if only for groceries. This year I, who j I previously thought of as a day about me, I now recognize it as a day to give special appreciation for the very fact that I Am a mommy, and to be grateful that I'm able to have my beautiful daughters to take grocery shopping (which was the biggest event of the day this year). It's funny, the things that I used to take for granted or find a chore or tiresome are now the very things I am so grateful to be doing, and I am grateful for this new found perspective and pray I never lose it!
   Years ago I went to Africa for a couple weeks to minister to those in need, and when I returned home to my apartment my roommate had just moved out and taken with her all our dish towels, something that may sound so trivial, at the time was somewhat irritating and very inconvenient, but I mention it because it taught me a very valuable lesson that has stayed with me, to never lose perpective of what I'd taken for granted. At that time it was dish towels, when i'd just spent weeks with families  who didn't own a single dish towel, let alone more than a single pot to cook on an open fire for their entire family. Maybe the lesson I thought I'd learned, and have never forgot I haven't yet applied in all things, because I now see so clearly  that I am reliving the same lesson as blessings.