Rewards of being a MOM

 As most of you know or remember from grade school Valentines Day equals those little cards for all of your friends. Zada has to "turn" them in by Monday so all of us MOMS that volunteer can get them in their cute little bags they are making. Yesterday I made my way out to pick some up for Zada - I made an executive desicion to go alone and pick some for her as I didn't want to spend nine hours deciding which are the perfect ones.  I also picked up some little heart suckers to put with the cards.

When I got home I told Zada what I had purchased. When I gave her the bag to see exactly what I bought her face lit up. The first thing out of her mouth was... "Mom! These are WONDERFUL, just WONDERFUL!" " The kids will just love these cards, MOM."  Then it was "MOM, You are the best mom ever! If I had any other mom I wouldn't have gotten these cards." "THANK YOU!"  This went on for another five or six minutes and of course I was patting myself on the back - "I finally did something right!"

It's the little things we do for our kids that mean so much! I had no idea how excited she would be to do this for her friends. Today we sat down and worked on picking the right cards for her friends and writing their names on them. For each kid she had me read the card and she had to really study the picture. Then she would explain to me why she picked that card for that child. Needless to say we still have half of the class to work on! 

It's moments like these that cancel out a lot of the bad moments of parenting. The compassion I see (at times) from Zada is so rewarding as a parent... as a mom. I"m really proud of her for being so concerned about someones feelings.

"GREAT JOB ZADA!"