So where to begin..... Today was not only Mommy's Day in our house, but it was also Daddy's 32nd Birthday!!! We had both unknowingly planned on suprising each other this morning, me with a birthday cake in bed joined by the kids singing happy birthday and Dwight with breakfast in bed for me to celebrate Mother's day. This morning when I woke up I noticed that Dwight was not sleeping as soundly as usual so I just decided to lay still, while laying in wait, Dwight quietly got out of bed and headed downstairs where I could hear him in the kitchen rustling around. I decided now was the time to inch down grab the cookie cake (Dwight despises birthday cake) off the couch along with the cards and shirt the kids had picked out! So as quiet as I could I snuck down and got all my stuff and got back upstairs with Dwight unaware. I quickly signed the cards got the cookie cake together. I snuck over to the kids room realizing that only Skylar remained in bed so I quietly woke her to go sing to Daddy. I slipped Dwight's new shirt that we had bought onto Skylar, which she thought was great, and headed down the stairs. At the bottom of the stairs Connor came running to us so I quickly quieted him and we tiptoed into the kitchen where we suprised Daddy with a Burton family rendition of Happy Birthday, all Jammie clad. Dwight was so suprised . He looked at me smiled, said Thank You now go back to bed!! So I ran upsatirs and climbed back in bed, where I was served a breakfast fit for a queen!!! on my new MOM tray. It was the perfect Mommy's/Daddy's Morning.
Everyday I am reminded of how blessed I truely am to have a husband who wants to love and dote on me. He paid such close attention I had pointed out the tray on a recent date night excursion, and he remebered. I am so glad that my daughter will get the opportunity to grow up with a daddy that loves her, and thinks that she is the most amazing little princess in all the world. I pray often that she finds someone that is a good christian leader like her Dad. That she realizes the sacrifices that he makes regularly for her, and how he has surrendered fully to God's call on his life. I pray that she finds a man as in love with God and his family as her Dad is. I hope as she grows up she always cherishes the relationship with her dad and sees it as invaluable in her growth as a christian and a woman.
It is so funny when people see Connor smile they always say that he is a little Dwight, but the two of them could not be more different in personality. I am so glad that Connor will be blessed to have a daddy that is trying so hard to be a Godly leader in his home(which is hard with a wife like me). I watch Connor run around watching his Daddy with such awe and it just melts me. He always talks about growing up to big like Daddy. I think he means tall, Daddy has never really grown up!! Daddy is content to play in the leaves, go and play soccer or just be Connor's ladder at Skylar's ballet classes so that he can see sissy through the window. Sometimes the little things are the big things..... I know that our family would never be what it is, including a little insane, without Daddy around!!! I LOVE YOU AND THINK THAT YOU ARE ONE OF GOD'S GREATEST GIFTS IN MY LIFE!!!!! THANK YOU FOR LOVING GOD, ME AND OUR CHILDREN SO FULLY!!!!
