Happy Mother’s Day + Free Mother’s Day Printable

Mother’s Day is this Sunday and I can’t go without honoring my best friend and the very best woman I know. And in honor of Mother’s Day I’m also sharing a free Mother’s Day printable that is perfect for dressing up a bouquet of flowers, a gift box, or a place setting for your own mother. Why is it that some ribbon and a tag makes everything exponentially cuter?

Lovingly referred to as “Mother” here on the blog (and yes, I really call her that in real life too), anyone that knows my mom loves her. She’s one of those people that other people are naturally drawn to. Growing up I would often come home to find my friends hanging out at my house… only they were there to see my mom!

And for good reason. She’s the life of the party (although she will claim to be shy), sweet but a little sassy, and a professional talker. She is loving, classy, fun, and the hardest working person I know.

But if there was only one word I could use to describe her it would be this: selfless. She has poured her entire life into her family and raising her children. Almost always her sacrifices and hard work going unnoticed behind the scenes. Never wanting any recognition for herself. Often going without so that we could have. And never expecting anything in return.

Growing up my mom would always say to me, “You will understand one day when you have children of your own.” And as usual, she was right. Why is she always right? : )

Since becoming a mom myself I have an entire new level of appreciation, respect and love for my own Mother. I’m also wondering more and more everyday how in the world she did it all? She is surely superwoman.

She is my best friend and the person I still call multiple times a day. My biggest cheerleader and advice-giver, even when I don’t want to hear it : )

She raised me to think I was capable of anything I put my mind to. And I truly believed it because she believed in me. She always sang my praises and boasted at my accomplishments, but she was the first to give me some tough love if I needed it (which I did a lot).

Everything I know I learned from her. She taught me by example what it means to be a Godly wife and mother. She taught me my love of crafting, sewing, painting, DIY-ing, antiquing and thrifting. She taught me my manners (always yes ma’am, no ma’am, yes sir and no sir), to always write a timely thank you note, and to always “put on some lipstick.”

She’s practically a saint for putting up with me during my pre-teen years. And she even managed to love us through all the shenanigans Brother and I put her through. Like the (many) times we put a rubber band around the sprayer on the sink (even before church one morning). Or the years we hid the fact that brother had shot a hole in the ceiling with his BB gun. Or the time we lost our hamster in the house. And even the time she had to repaint the entire kitchen ceiling because a demonstration of “centrifugal force” with a ketchup bottle went terribly wrong. I could go on and on. Bless her.

There’s nothing she loves more than being a mom except being a Grandmother. Nothing makes her happier and she loves spoiling John Davis rotten. Secretly I wouldn’t have it any other way (but don’t tell her that).

I pray that I can be just half the mother to my own boys that she is to me. I certainly have big shoes to fill.

Happy Mother’s Day to all of the wonderful mother’s out there. Don’t forget to download your free Mother’s Day printable!

She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come.
She speaks with wisdom, and faithful instruction is on her tongue.
She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.
Her children arise and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her:
“Many women do noble things, but you surpass them all.”
Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.
Honor her for all that her hands have done, and let her works bring her praise at the city gate.