Homemade cards

The kids made me cards this year.  I don't have a scanner that works with this laptop, so I can only type in what they wrote.  I am including the spelling and punctuation they used.

The Youngest, in his ten-year-old penmanship stuck with a simple greeting:  "Happy Mother's Day" on the front with a huge smiley face and "Happy Mother's Day Mom" inside, with a tiny drawing of me beneath and then "Love [his name].  On the other side, he drew a huge mom smiley face.  And there is yet another smiley on the very back.

At school he made a drawing on black construction paper and colored chalk with my first name on the front.  His teacher told the kids to write two words that describe their mom on the back; he wrote "forgiving" and "encouraging".

Makes me believe I am perhaps doing something right!

The Middle's card begins with "Dear Mom" sprawled across the front.  Inside is inscribed:

Its mothers day.
Sit back.
relax,
enjoy yourself.

After all, today and your birthday are really the only days we acknowledge what you do for us.

On any other day, we don't ever think twice about how much you do for us.

All I am trying to say is, thank you for what you do for us.
Thank you for putting up with our crap.

And most of all,
thank you for loving us!

Love, [his name]

Because without you, we wouldn't be here.

The Daughter wrote me a note:

Dear Mommy,
    HAPPY MOMMY'S DAY!  I know how much you like cards, but I decided to write you a letter.  I never was much good at following directions :-).  I just want to say, I love you and I truly am greatful for everything you do for me.  You really should be paid for what you do.  Thank you for putting up with me year round and still having me even thought (she meant though) I didn't wanna come out.  Show's my personality, eh?  I love you.
       Happy Mothers Day,
                [her name]

Sure, they drive me crazy some most days, but I wouldn't change being their mom for anything.

I am blessed.