My wife and I both had to work on Mother's Day, so we celebrated our Mother's Day today with Erica's parents. I took some great pictures this past week and today, but my wife deserves high praise for her role as a mother.
The last six years of Erica's life have been characterized by the word Mother. She has been waking up at 6:00am for six years, changing/wiping diapers for six years, working to provide for her children for six years, and throughout these last six years she has never had a break from being a Mother. However, these aren't the things that amaze me about my wife. These things that I mentioned above are done because she HAS to. These things are part of the redundency of raising children. These things don't define a good Mother from a bad one. What does is going above and beyond the every day tasks of child-rearing, putting children above your own comforts and desires, and giving them the love, compassion, and attention they need. This is what my wife does day in and day out, and it has been her trademark for the last six years.
My wife is a nurse and works to provide for this family while I go to school for nursing. She gets up at four in the morning, leaves at five and gets to work early everyday to take care of people. As she caters to the needs of residents at her job (Nursing Home) for eight straight hours, she stays posititve knowing that she is doing this for her children. She finally gets home and is shockingly full of joy and runs right to her kids and plays with them, loves on them, and laughs with them as though she hasn't seen them for weeks. After pouring her heart out as a nurse all day, making people that she barely knows more comfortable and loved, she still has the energy to pour 100 times more love into her own children. But her day doesn't stop there. She rests while the children take their afternoon nap, and then cooks dinner for five, so that our family gets to eat together every night. She goes and goes and goes because she loves her family more than anything in this world. But before she finally goes to bed at night, she lays with our oldest daughter Annalise, tells her how much she means to her, reads her a bedtime story or two, and gets her backpack ready for school the next day. This is a typical day for my wife, and I never have heard her complain. Her life defines motherhood to the extreme and I could not be more blessed to have her as my wife.
Even though Mother's Day is a day to celebrate motherhood, I can't leave out the fact that after all the things Erica does as a mother, her daily walk as my companion never ends. She does all that she can to ensure that we have time to spend together, talk together, and does whatever else it takes to solidify our relationship. She completes every fiber of my being, makes me a better father, husband, student, and worker. I learn from every word that comes out of her mouth. I'm in awe of her patience, diligence, determination, and positive energy. Her joyful attitude, confidence, and tender heart rubs of on me when I need it the most. Her soft heart towards God's Word rightly-divided is the sexiest thing I can ask for as a husband. She loves the Word of God written through the apostle Paul to the body of Christ, written to us for our learning, understanding, and obedience today. Nothing makes me love her more than this. I can't believe that we have been married for almost three years, and not a day goes by that I don't thank the Lord Jesus Christ for the wife that I chose. It was the best decision that I have ever made to marry Erica.
Even though Mother's Day is a day to celebrate motherhood, I can't leave out the fact that after all the things Erica does as a mother, her daily walk as my companion never ends. She does all that she can to ensure that we have time to spend together, talk together, and does whatever else it takes to solidify our relationship. She completes every fiber of my being, makes me a better father, husband, student, and worker. I learn from every word that comes out of her mouth. I'm in awe of her patience, diligence, determination, and positive energy. Her joyful attitude, confidence, and tender heart rubs of on me when I need it the most. Her soft heart towards God's Word rightly-divided is the sexiest thing I can ask for as a husband. She loves the Word of God written through the apostle Paul to the body of Christ, written to us for our learning, understanding, and obedience today. Nothing makes me love her more than this. I can't believe that we have been married for almost three years, and not a day goes by that I don't thank the Lord Jesus Christ for the wife that I chose. It was the best decision that I have ever made to marry Erica.
Baby, all I have ever needed in life is you! Happy Mother's Day!
Jeremy
Jeremy
