Mother's Day! A day to honor Mom and family

What a great way to spend Mother's Day!  I spent today honoring those wonderful women that have inspired my life.  I am very blessed to have my not only my own Mother, but also my Mother-in-law and Mama K in my life.  These three wonderful women provide me with great inspiration and advice  both in and out of the kitchen.  All three have shared many of their life experiences with me, in addition to some really wonderful recipes!  Today, we are enjoying a great backyard barbeque, with tons of delicious food!

This tradition of celebrating Mother's Day with both of our families started about 4 years ago when my husband and I invited them all to our house for a barbeque!  My husband and I provide the meat, which is usually steak for Brazilian BBQ, and everyone else brings a dish to pass.  This works out great, because not one Mom has to do all the cooking!

It is on afternoons like this that I am so grateful for our families.  To be able to spend time with our parents and see them spend time with our daughter is wonderful.  There are so many lessons for her to learn while spending time with her grandparents!  She is learning to respect her elders, enjoy life, and value family.  This is also time for our family history to be shared, passed on, and added to!  I couldn't think of a better way to do this then through our parents!

I do finding it interesting how becoming a Mom myself has caused me to value my time with our parents even more.  I think this is because I am now realizing how much of themselves they gave up to raise me and guide me to be the person I am today.  I love being a Mom and want to thank my Mom for doing all that she has for me and my daughter!

My mother is one of the biggest reasons I took the initiative to learn how to cook.  My father is the one that taught me to cook, but my Mother was the inspiration.  She would get frustrated trying to figure out what to do with leftovers and that is when I would help out.  In addition to being my inspiration in the kitchen, she taught me how to garden.  My mother has always taken a lot of pride in how her yard and flowers beds looked.  She was even honored one summer for having the most beautiful yard in our neighborhood, it was really neat!  So, thanks to both my parents not only can I cook the food, but I can grow it as well!

I truly hope that you enjoyed your Mother's Day!  I know that for me I really felt the love today as we honored our Mother's and family today!




Grub's on!