We awoke bright and early to celebrate one of the most important days of the year, Mother's Day of course. The girls were very excited about being able to give their card to Kristy. Their excitement stemmed from the fact that they had chosen one of the new singing cards that actually sings a recent popular song from the actual artist. They could not wait for Kristy to open her card and listen to the song "Born to Fly".
This day is so important as we are able to place Mothers exactly where they belong, on a pedestal. I sure hope we did a good job placing Kristy there, we sure love her so much and she is such a wonderful Mother for Molly and Neleha.
To further extend the days festivities the girls and I decided to buy foods Kristy grew up with for her Mother's Day dinner. This of course included fresh green beans which Kristy loves to snap and prep.
We attended church and all of my girls looked so beautiful that I just had to capture the moment.
Back at home we enjoyed a wonderful spread of traditional Midwestern food including steak corn-on-the-cob, green beans, fresh biscuits and a garden salad, all of Kristy's favorites.
After dinner we walked down to the duck pond to enjoy a nice evening with each other.
We enjoyed a simple stroll around the beautiful serene pond.
As we were about to depart from the pond the strangest thing occurred, a duckling walked right up to us and then began to follow us. In fact this duckling was so friendly that he did not put up any fuss at all when Kristy picked him up. Next thing we knew the girls were playing with this duckling too.
We called Kristy's Mom to ask if knew why a duck would act this way and we also talked to one of the park rangers and from all that we learned that when ducklings are first kicked out of the nest they immediately attempt to socialize with anything nearby, in this case the duckling chose us. We also learned that the duckling would be okay and so we played for a short while longer and then left the duckling with another duckling we also found nearby.
The girls were very sad when we told them it was time to go, they wanted to keep the duckling, after all it was more friendly than most kittens, but we comforted the girls by telling them we could come down to the pond and feed the ducklings often. They eventually understood and our wonderful day came to an end.
