Happy Mother's Day!

This year more than ever, I am grateful for this holiday. 

For the past 5 years, this has been a day of mixed emotions: I haven't celebrated with my mom because she is in Heaven.  For all the years before that, she was happy to celebrate Mother's Day with her own mom, so I never felt like I got to have her all to myself on Mother's Day (I know, I can be pretty selfish). 

I am grateful because as I recover from surgery, so many have you have shown your love and support of everything I've endured and I feel like you are all my moms right now.  I cannot provide for my family like a mom can right now, but I hope you pseudo-moms feel my appreciation.  Happy Mother's Day to you :)

I am grateful because I AM a mom.  This is such a precious gift.  For those who've been following Guiliana Rancic, you know that she's had a cancer journey as well this year, but hadn't yet had a chance to have her baby yet and cancer was making things more difficult than it was before.  I've had all my babies and am so grateful to be around them tomorrow.  What's better than watching your babies on Mother's Day?

Finally, I am grateful because I have the best Mother-in-Law in the world.  I've bragged about this for years, but she has been even more helpful, caring, doting, spoiling, loving, generous, and giving this year for me and my family.  What makes her more amazing is that she just lost her own mom this week and yet she continues to ask what she can be doing for us.  There is no end of greatness for this woman.  She is such an inspiration of what a mom should be and I feel incredibly blessed to be a part of her family.  I love you, Dorette, and I thank God for you.

Happy Mother's Day everyone :)