Look For Your Love Notes

My children are so sweet.

Mother's day is approaching and I can't wait. It's my favorite day of the year. I get breakfast in bed and oodles of hugs, kisses and homemade cards. For now, I am their favorite woman in the whole-wide-world, and believe me, I appreciate every second of it, knowing just around the corner, my light will dim and some other girl is going to take my place.

During the school year, I slip little 'love notes' in the boys' lunch boxes reminding them that I'm thinking about them and I love them. Something small and simple, yet big on heart. Many years ago, I realized that my boys were leaving me love notes, too. Quietly, secretly. As if they knew I would appreciate them more if they were a surprise.

I would discover them all over the house, often when they were in bed and the house was still. For some reason, it was easier to find them then. Some were in plain sight, some I had to look hard to find, some I mistook for something else. But they were there, each with their own personal touch.

Some made me laugh, some made me cry. But always they were creative and unique.

I honestly wish I could say that only my kids were sneaking me love notes, that only my guys thought I walked on water. But I know.

I'm not the only one.

Sadly many parents I talk to don't even realize their children, are too, leaving them love notes. They don't think to look for these priceless keepsakes that someday they'll wish they would have put in a pretty box and slipped under the bed. Keepsakes they would surely look through later with nostalgia, and reminisce about all of the years that had passed and how they wished their children were still home to leave them love notes....

No. They'll miss them. overlook them.

They'll be too busy cleaning, correcting, and 'doing' to ever see them.

Love notes gone to waste.

Thrown, washed and wiped away.

I'm keeping mine. cherishing every one. taking pictures and preserving memories. I'm looking for every single one, every single day.

Happy Mother's day, to me.
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How do your children leave you love notes? Leave a comment or shoot me a picture to add to the collection.

Happy Mother's Day beautiful moms!