The best Mother’s Day present I ever received was a week late.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My second child had just been born the Saturday after Mother’s Day, and I will never<\/strong> forget the moment when my oldest daughter stepped foot in the hospital room to meet her little sister for the first time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That look on her face.<\/em> Unbearably excited, as only a 5-year-old can be. But also a little nervous about the unknown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She stepped towards the bed and reached a small hand out to her sister’s fuzzy head. Then glanced up at me, her eyes asking permission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I smiled. “You can touch her.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Slowly and ever so gently, she laid a hand on her sister’s head. And that’s when I realized that the best<\/strong> Mother’s Day gifts are not<\/em> jewelry or flowers or even a perfectly worded store-bought greeting card.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As it turns out, the very best Mother’s Day gifts come straight from the heart, not a shopping cart.<\/p>\n\n\n