Moms, You Are Awesome

Moms,

You do so much.  You are so loved.  You do a million tiny things that add up to a beautiful childhood to the children who call you “Mom”.  Here are some of the many ways you are making your children happy.

*Spoiler alert- apparently a lot of you are awesome cooks, great at playing with your kids and showing them they’re loved.  My heroes.  And also, you picked some fantastic names for your kids!  This was so fun to put together.

Question:  What’s the best thing your mom does for you?

Answers from Your Kids: (as submitted by readers on the Facebook page)

“She does her best thing to do my laundry.” -Rhianna, age 6

“Her loves us.” -Bobby, age 5

“Have school time” (we’ve recently started doing a bit of homeschool preschool)- Adeline, age 3

“Tells you that you can do your chores” (I promise I didn’t put him up to that.)- Nehemiah, age 4

“Makes yummy food.” –Simon, age 5

“Cuts food.” –Ian, age 3

“Gggggooooooo.”-Baby

“Clean my room.”- Clara, age 3

“Takes me to the Children’s Museum with Daddy!”- Tess, age 5

“Helps me along the way.”- Elsie, age 7

“Goes to the store with me and I get to hang out with her, which is awesome.”- Pete, age 9

“Take care of me.”-  Micah, age 4

“You cook dinner for us.”- Kyree, age 5

“Um, you buy food, cook for us, do our chores?” Me: “Is that a question or an answer?”Hudson: “I see your nostrils flaring. Oh, I know…you spend time with us, gave birth to us so we can live.”  Hudson, age 7

“Loves me. That’s the best.” -Poppi, age 5

“Um, dance?”- Posie, age 3

“Let’s me have my Legos back early” (he got in trouble and lost them for a day).- Drew II, age 5

“Let’s me put bottles away” (after baby brother finishes. She takes this very seriously, and yells at anyone else who dares take empty bottles to the kitchen).- EmmaClair, age 3

“Puts me in bed, makes me food, and when we get older she’s gonna get us a DOG!”- Adrienne, age 3

“Take care of me, bringing me to school…. So, yeah, taking care of me is pretty much everything a mom does.” 
-Savannah, age 6

“Plays with me.”- Sylas, age 3

“You make make make make make make my bed.” -Danny, age 4

“Rock me and let me feed [foster baby] sometimes.”- Livia, age 9

“She helps me, and kisses me and, she likes me.” -Charlotte, age 6

“I like when Mommy tickles me and makes me popcorn. I like elephants.” -James, age 4

“She opens things.” -Benjamin, age 3

“You make my heart happy when you make my lunch peanut butter and jelly and carrots and strawberries.”- Bethany, age 3

“Loves me and snuggles with me and feeds me, takes care of me, did the adoption work for me and smooshes me. And everything she does including the consequences”- Dayna, age 8

“I’m not home right now to ask them, but I imagine I might get an answer like, ‘her cooking doesn’t suck. Mostly.'” –Teen boys ages 15 and 17

“She helps me do my life.” -Eloise, age 6

“She helps me build playdough houses and that’s awesome.” -Delia, age 3

“Kisses me” -Elliana, age 5

“Cook for me.”- Eliya, age 6

“Fun stuff.”- Simeon, age 5

“Love me.” -Aleksa, age 8

“She lets me go to the circus”-Kendall, age 6

“She cares for us and gives us food”-Emma, age 9

“She gives me food. Sometimes I get the last cookie.” -Jackson, age 8

“Makes skabetty.” -Siah, age 7

“Love me?” -Sam, age 8

“She plays Star Wars with me.” –Luke, age 6

“I don’t know, but I want the last popsicle.” –Tim, age 3

“Bake for us.” -Linley, age 5

“Kiss us and cook cupcakes.” -Gracyn, age 3

“Cars! Play cars.” (I think he heard my question as “What do you want mommy to do with you right now?” because now I’m surrounded by cars) -Elijah, age 3

“You do, like, 200 best things. Can I just say 20 of them?” – Josh, age 6

“Plays with me with Barbies. I love my momma she’s cool.” –Sarah, age 3

“Gets ponies in my hair!”-Owynn, age 3

“Treats” -Irina, age 2

“Take us fun places”-Mac, age 8

“Cleans. Eats. Cleans my room.”-Judah, age 3

“She loves me. She takes care of me.”-Aliyah, age 7

“It’s hard, you do lots of good things.”-Malachi, age 9

“Takes me to bible study and scouts. You give us awesome gifts, you help clean the house, and you teach us school….and loves me.”-Josiah, age 11

“You love and take care of us so well.  You let us do fun things even though sometimes we don’t deserve it.  And you lay and pray with us at night.” –Ava, age 9

“Snuggle.” –Olivia, age 7

“Lets you play games”-Fredric, age 5

“Feed us.”-Ethan, age 6

“Smiles at us.”-Naomi, age 10

“Rubbing my back and legs while singing to me at bedtime.” Josiah, age 9

“Cook!” –Jayna, 6

“You a nice mommy! Make dinner!” –Juan, age 4

“Lunch.” –Tez, age 3

“Read books!” -Kallan, age 2