A First Mothers' Day

I am a mother.

A Family Home Evening mother, that is. And as my first official act as a mother, this morning I tiptoe down the stairs to assemble packages for my “daughters” – homemade loaves of bread, miniature daisy bouquets, and apostolic comments on womanhood written on color-coordinating cardstock. I am seriously teeming over with excitement (I hope they like them!) and delight (I love creating!).

I delight in being a woman, in knowing that my divine qualities of nurture, creativity, and faith enable me to make life of beauty now, and create a home of peace and happiness in years to come. And I delight in knowing that one day my husband and I will be partners with Deity in bringing human life to this earth. I delight in homemaking, in being able to add my own personal touch when I create a place of growth for my family. To bake homemade bread together. To pick flowers together. To pray and learn about Christ together. To give my daughters little baskets on Mothers’ Day to celebrate being women, with quotes much like that of Elder Holland’s that I copied five times today…:

“I want you to be proud you are a woman. I want you to feel the reality of what that means, to know who you truly are. You are literally a spirit daughter of heavenly parents with a divine nature and an eternal destiny. That surpassing truth should be fixed deep in your soul, and…there could never be a greater authentication of your dignity, your worth, your privilege, and your promise.” (October 2005 General Conference)

…To teach my daughters who they really are, that they are literally the spirit offspring of divine parentage, and that their bodies are capable of exquisite expression through dance, art, writing, and every other creative outlet they find talent in. But all of that will have to wait, as I delight in this season of my life where I am blessed with learning and traveling and singles ward FHE groups, where I anticipate “the last of life, for which the first was made,” at which point in my life I will realize that "youth show[ed] but half."

Happy Mothers' Day.


And...BYU's campus encourages procreation for all creatures, apparently :)