This week I’m grateful for my Mum. Not only is she a wonderful woman, who single-handedly raised me, but now a mother myself, she is helping to raise my daughters. The role she plays in their lives is magical to watch and they love her dearly. Sometimes they love her a little too much, as I don’t think Grandma would appreciate a phone call at 5.30am on a Sunday morning to tell her they were having oats for breakfast!
She has been both my husband’s and my saviour, particularly since the birth of Baby 3. We’ve really needed a helping hand. She arrives at our house at a moment’s notice, armed with bags of “craft” and pushes us out the door to “go and have some time for yourselves”. The girls squeal with delight when they see her and sit alongside her listening to stories and doing crafty things. It is such a delight to watch them together (and it is such a delight to run out the door, speed down the driveway and sit at a restaurant having a meal together).
I can’t thank her enough for all the love and support she gives us. Without her visits and endless offers of baby sitting I think my husband and I would look like this.
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oh my! this is just lovely to read and that picture so made me smile – imagining your husband that way!
I have to say I am super grateful for panadol too! a real life saver in those bad moments.
take care Naomi x
Awww this is so sweet! Thank goodness for Mums who support us & do so much for us! I too am so very grateful for my wonderful Mother!
xo
I love that we all appreciate our Mums so much more (just as they deserve) once we become Mother’s ourselves.
Same here, without my mother I would be lost. I am glad she is there supporting you. And panadol? Yes I agree. It’s awesome. Have a lovely weekend x
Gorgeous… My mum lives away and, seriously, I really do look like that. x
Love this grateful.
My mum is like that too, well sans the craft, she brings food :).
My SIL has been our saviour too, her children are all grown up.
Love the image- spot on for us too.
Mums are the best! Also? I love your pic of Beaker! Found you through Maxabella
Love this post. I agree with Maxabella, my mum lives interstate and my husband and I have that very same look on our faces most days lol Great blog too btw 🙂
Fantastic post! Beaker is so funny! I don’t have any family in melbourne and although that’s fine, every now and then it would be really nice to palm the little dears off on someone I didn’t have to pay!! xxxCate
Your Mum sound’s like a gem!
I wish mine lived closer so the man and I could stop looking like that Muppet picture. ha ha
I am also grateful for Panadol today. Silly cold. x
Oh, can your Mum come and play at my place with my kids??
She sounds awesome.
Definitely worth a grateful post.
Lovely to read that your Mum is so helpful like that. And the best part is, your children will have a wonderful relationship with her!
You mum sounds ace … you gotta love mums!!
If only we could all have that “ahaaaaa” moment of realising how great our mums are a bit earlier in life… like our teens. The things we put our mums through and yet they love us just the same.
I’m grateful for your Mum too! Kx
Hi I have just joined your blog as a follower, i know you have been following mine for a while, thank you! Mums are very special aren’t they? Yours sounds great in taking the kids off your hands and allowing you and your husband to ‘escape’ and have time for each other.
I’m being strolling around your blog for the last 2 days getting a feel (no I’m not a weird blog stalker) and I must say this is one of the nest thanksgiving entries ever.