Happy Mother's Day!

Mother’s Day is this weekend.  I don’t know why we have to wait for a specific day during the year to celebrate our moms?  We should regularly tell our moms how great they are, right?  So since I don’t tell my mom enough this post is for her. 

My mom taught my sister and me so much while we were growing up.  How to laugh, love, be caring, be sweet, be thoughtful, be organized, be responsible, and work hard.  When I find myself being excessively organized or being thoughtful toward someone, I know it is my mom coming out in me.  

Me as a youngster helping mom make some cut out cookies.

 

My mom also taught me to enjoy cooking.  Since I was very young my mom would teach me and let me help her cook and bake.  Now that I have Claire “helping” me all the time I know that my mom allowing me to help was probably and inconvenience for her sometimes, but she included me just the same.  As I have grown older I really have come to love baking and cooking!  Thankfully I married someone who doesn’t like to cook so I can do it all the time J

Me standing up to the counter helping mom
 make something yummy!

 

I think all daughters go through phases with their moms.  I know that I loved spending time with my mom when I was young, seemed to grow apart from her through late teenage years (which I am sure broke her heart), and now she is one of my best friends.  It’s funny how things change.  Now that I am a mom I think it is amazing how gracefully and patiently my mom handled the phases I went through.  She must have known that I would come full circle and just waited through the storm.  I hope I can be as wise and compassionate to Claire as she grows up.
My mom isn’t only a great mom to my sister and I, she is a wonderful grandma to Claire.  Claire loves to spend time with both of her grandmas and her great grandma.  She is lucky to have so many great ladies loving her J  A few weeks ago Claire and I went to visit my mom and go for a walk together.  My mom shared some cookies that she had made and said they were “healthy”.  I loved the cookies, tweaked the recipe just a bit, and started making them regularly.   I’ve included the recipe below.

Me helping grandma take ends off green beans from the garden.
Or, at least that is what I am supposed to be doing....looks like
I am eating them!

I also have to also mention that I have a special grandma who I am very close with and so thankful to have.  She and my grandpa are always very supportive and fun grandparents.  They now nurture Claire just as they did for me while growing up.  Not all children get to spend time with their great grandparents on a regular basis; Claire is fortunate!

I also have another mother in my life.  My mother in- law is the most amazing mother in- law I could have!  I know many times people cringe when talking about the in- laws, but I couldn’t be more blessed to join the family that I did!  I look up to and admire my mother in- law so much and hope I can develop into a great farm wife and mother like she is.

So here’s to all of the wonderful ladies in my life!  I wouldn’t be the women I am today without you molding, shaping, teaching, and nurturing me since I was young.  I know there are many girls who don’t get the opportunity to be around so many great women like I have been.  I am truly thankful for the time I spend with you, love you all, and hope I have many more years with you!



Claire helping me clean up after we made
cookies.  She loves to clean up the spatuala
with her tongue, lol.

Here’s the recipe for the cookies my mom, Claire and I enjoy together.  The cookies have a cake like texture with a hint of honey.  Very yummy!

Ingredients:

7 tbsp. butter, melted

½ c. sugar

1 egg

¼ c. plain Greek yogurt

1/3 c. honey

½ tsp. salt

1 tsp. baking powder

1 ¾ c. flour

Directions:

·         Cream butter and sugar together. 

·         Beat in egg, yogurt, and honey.  Set aside.

·         Sift together dry ingredients.  Add to wet ingredients.

·         Bake at 350, for 10- 12 minutes.