Mother's Day Luncheon

So my sister gave me this great idea, to throw a lunch for my friends to celebrate being moms. I had lots of fun planning, I love doing parties! (Kjell teases about the time and money I spend, plus the help he always ends up giving) So I tried to make it simple. We just had a lite lunch and some fancy desserts. Thank you Kjell for making your creme brulee everybody loved it! I also want to thank everyone who helped me including Becky for all the ideas and recipes. I wanted to share some quotes with my friends about mothers and how much I love and appreciate them in my life because of the example they are to me and the support they all give me. I also gave out the booklet "In The Arms Of His Love". (Thanks for picking it up Marilyn)It's a talk given by President Hinckley. It's about Relief Society and how as women we should support each other, offer service, sacrifice, and love. Here are a few of my favorite Quotes that I shared.

"You have walked the sometimes painful, sometimes joyous path of parenthood. You have walked hand in hand with God in the great process of bringing children into the world that they might experience this estate along the road of immortality and eternal life. It has not been easy rearing a family. Most of you have had to sacrifice and skimp and labor night and day. As I think of you and your circumstances, I think of the words of Anne Campbell, who wrote as she looked upon her children:You are the trip I did not take;You are the pearls I cannot buy;You are my blue Italian lake;You are my piece of foreign sky.("To My Child," quoted in Charles L. Wallis, ed., The Treasure Chest [1965], 54)You sisters are the real builders of the nation wherever you live, for you have created homes of strength and peace and security. These become the very sinew of any nation." -Gordon B. Hinckley

"If you try your best to be the best parent you can be, you will have done all that a human being can do and all that God expects you to do."There are some lines attributed to Victor Hugo which read:"'She broke the bread into two fragments and gave them to her children, who ate with eagerness."'She hath kept none for herself,' grumbled the sergeant."'Because she is not hungry,' said a soldier."'No,' said the sergeant, 'because she is a mother.'" - Jeffrey R. Holland

"She who bears the title to that sweetest word ever lisped by human lips, that most loved, most sacred appellation ever coined in speech, that holy, precious word—Mother.... Especially is this so when she who bears this sacred title is herself as sweet and clean and pure as the very spirits which quicken the bodies of the living souls which she brings into the world. When Mother is good, she is better than gold or precious gems! When she is as true as the fixed stars and as clear as the moon and as bright as the sun, the highest type of motherhood!" — Joseph Fielding Smith

"Like the woman who anonymously, meekly, perhaps even with hesitation and some embarrassment, fought her way through the crowd just to touch the hem of the Master's garment, so Christ will say to the women who worry and wonder and sometimes weep over their responsibility as mothers, "Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole."12 And it will make your children whole as well." — Jeffrey R. Holland

Thanks to everyone for coming, we missed you all who couldn't make it! I also want to thank all of the husbands who put up with me harassing them to write letters that I could give to their wives and watching the children so we could have a break. I might make it an annual event but that might take some convincing of Kjell.