Happy Mother's Day!

There has been a bird nesting in our tree right outside our dining room window. For a couple of weeks, while it was building its nest, it would fly from the tree into the window, fall down, fly back into the tree, into the window, fall down . . . for hours. When the incessant thumping on the window stopped, we thought the bird had gone away, but Caroline discovered the bird was busy doing something else. One day, there was only one egg. The next day, two. The third day, three.

We have a great view of the bird sitting on her nest from our dining room window. (look closely, I couldn't get any closer to her . . . she has a tendency of screeching at us when we get too close) We keep checking on her and there she sits . . . so patiently waiting for her little ones to hatch. I think it is wonderful how God has given even the tiny birds a maternal instinct.

Happy Mother's Day to my mom, John's mom, and to all of my mommy friends out there!!!! (and to the mommy bird that is so patiently waiting for her eggs to hatch) I love you all!!!

:)

Here is a quote that I found and I think it was written with my mom in mind.

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts. ~Washington Irving

Thank you, Mom, for always being there for me.

And here are some more quotes I found . . .

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A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. ~Tenneva Jordan

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The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. ~Rajneesh

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I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. ~Abraham Lincoln

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Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly. ~Ambrose Bierce

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If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? ~Milton Berle

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Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. ~Marion C. Garretty

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I love my mother as the trees love water and sunshine - she helps me grow, prosper, and reach great heights. ~Terri Guillemets

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[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled. ~Emily Dickinson

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Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

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All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother. ~Abraham Lincoln