Happy Mother's Day!

A few years ago I wrote this little list for Kim on Valentine’s Day. I wanted to do something to honor her for Mother’s Day so I decided to share this with everyone, (after a little minor editing). I hope she doesn’t mind.

Remember When:

• A skinny eleven-year-old boy brought you a mouse.
  
• A neighbor girl who was twice his size forced a geeky 12-year-old kid into dating servitude.
  
• A dorky 13 year old fearfully broke the “chains of love” by dumping his neighbor girlfriend and began professing allegiance to you.
  
• A scrawny 14 year old began to stalk you.
  
• A dinky 15 year old suddenly grew taller than you.
  
• A bedazzled 16-year-old boy kissed you for the first time on the night of junior prom.
  
• A whipped young 16 year old blew an engine in his car while driving you to see your boyfriend in Monticello.
  
• A depressed 17 year old continued to stalk you.
  
• Somewhere in there you and your stalker became best friends.
  
• A nervous, soon to be 19-year-old boy looked you in the eyes across the dinner table and could have proposed marriage.
  
• A young missionary wrote you more often than he wrote his own mother.
  
• A young returned missionary asked you a set of questions during a late night cuddle session, which prompted him to get on his knees and ask you to marry him.
  
• You said, “YES!”
  
• A newly engaged couple financed a wedding ring with no money, no job and not even a roof over their heads.
  
• You knelt at the altar in the Temple of The Lord and stared into eternity with your stalker, to be sealed together forever.
  
• You forced the entire Hurst Family Convoy to pull over and stop on it’s way to Juarez, Mexico, while you emptied the contents of your stomach on the side of the road.
  
• Our first child tried to enter this world early then refused to come on time once the proper moment arrived.
  
• Our eldest daughter stopped breathing during her first hours at home.
  
• We lost track of one another because paying bills seemed to be more important than being together as a family.
  
• We made the crazy decision to move home within the year and we uprooted our lives within two weeks time. (The right opportunity came along.)
  
• Two young parents decided it was time to expand their family only to discover that having another child was not like buying a loaf of bread at the grocery store.
  
• Your husband had to learn how to poke you with a needle in a vain attempt to jumpstart your reproductive system.
  
• We shared a horrific and very tragic ultrasound with our young daughter.
  
• A young couple was told their reproductive luck had run out.
  
• A zealous young mother networked with everyone and their dogs in a frantic effort to add to her family.
  
• Two kids left their child at home while they hopped on a plane to San Diego to meet a potential birth mother.
  
• Weeks later they loaded their luggage and child into the car and waited hours at the train station to travel east by train in order to pick up the next member of their family.
  
• The highway patrol tracked that family down and asked them to call their adoption agency in order to receive some tragic news.
  
• Your fragile husband nearly fell apart and came very close to an internal death.
  
• Shortly thereafter we received the right phone call telling us it was time to come to Philadelphia to pick up our daughter.
  
• That young and tested couple met their second child in the lobby of a Philadelphia motel.
  
• Those youngsters didn’t wait around to let anyone change their circumstances and hopped on a plane to get home as quickly as possible with their little baby.
  
• We took our two daughters to the newly built Temple of the Lord in our home area and knelt once again at the altar and were reminded of the eternal nature of life.
  
• We realized we weren’t done, that there was another child who was to bear Dad’s name.
  
• We revealed our souls one more time on paper and when our paperwork was “almost done.”
  
• A national tragedy occurred and days later a Glover celebration happened.
  
• Two crazy San Juan County residents drove across the nation in two days to pick up their son, because there were no planes in the skies.
  
• We first met our little “cow,” and his precious birth mother.
  
• Our son was ripped from our arms and returned to live in tragic circumstances.
  
• We stopped living for 3 months.
  
• A depressed, lost, and forlorn couple was approached by their social worker and asked if they would accept a new scenario for the acceptance of a child in their home. That surprising scenario involved the return of their son.
  
• We returned once again to the altar of eternity and finished our family.
  
• A not so young husband paused what he was doing and saying to look his wife in the eyes and tell her how beautiful she was.
  
• The last time was that I told you, “I love you!” Well I meant it. I love you!
  

Happy Mother’s Day! I love you Kim and I want the world to know it! Thanks for being the mother of my children, my best friend and wife.