1. My mother wore all yellow today from head to toe. Her shoes were yellow patent leather. Most people wouldn’t be able to pull it off, yet she did it with such distinctive aplomb, I was giddy all over again to know her.
2. I kept remembering all of the young mothers at the Church service at Village Kwaco in Haiti last week. So beautiful, some of them breast feeding other mother’s  kids.
3. When I did my Mission statement this morning at Church I concluded with the statement: “Not only do the Haitian people need us, but we also and equally need the Haitian people.” Felt like it was a good moment for me.
4. My kids dressed up, bought cards for my mom and I, were beyond the best. I love them. I thank God for them.
5.  I had tea with my ex-husband at the end of the day today and when he wished me a Happy Mother’s Day I told him I wouldn’t be one without him.
6. The Orphans at the Orphanage at the Haitian Christian Mission, such sweet sweet kids had a sign inside the orphanage that said: Transform Life.
7. I’m wondering how some of those kids we took care of last week are doing……
8. Everyone is a mother. I honestly and truly believe this.
9. At one point, during our walk in Jockey Hollow, my mother turned to me and told me a really poignant story about her mother, who, on a purely superficial level would not go down in the annals of history as a good and giving mother.
10.  When I arrived home tonight at 10:30, I was spent, emotionally overwhelmed and grateful that I had been mothered by my friend Marky Mark. Such a sweet listener.
11. Balance is so important.
12. Life can be tender and sometimes bittersweet, I am grateful to be able to be a mother, to have been mothered, to know mothers and to move myself forward in deep appreciation for all that has been; anticipating everything to come.

Exhale. Big Day!!!