My Wife, the Mom.

Just in case no one has already taken the understatement of the year, my wife is an amazing person.

A few years ago, Kelly had had about enough of going to scrapbooking stores and buying irregular cutting scissors, and decided that what with the Interweb and all, she was going to preserve memories for our kids on one of them new-fangled blogs.

Teach and Tickle was born.

If you happen to be new to this blog, I encourage you to look around and learn about my remarkable wife. If you're a regular, then, well, I don't have to tell you.

Oh sure, Kelly is not perfect.  She would be the first to admit that.  She often tells me that she worries she portrays herself and our family in too good a light - that she holds herself and our family out as the ideal.  Nonetheless, for good or for bad, this particular medium, being autobiographical, and editable at our discretion, along with being fraught with many superfluous parenthetical phrases separated by commas, affords the author a certain, how you say, "I don't know what."

Wow, am I wordy.

But getting to the heart of this post:  My wife, the Mom.   I love my wife for how she loves our kids.  I know it is too cheesy a thing to say that she loves them with her very life, with her every fiber, but it's true.  

Tonight, we watched the Disney movie, "Tangled."   (Great flick.  I think the best since "The Little Mermaid" or "Snowball Express".)
-Spoiler Alert!-
In the movie, a selfish woman has kidnapped the infant Rapunzel and poses as her mother while keeping her isolated in a tower.  Rapunzel's hair has some magical quality that gives youth and health to this pretend mother, so it becomes this woman's life to keep Rapunzel for herself.  While their are some fleeting moments of near-motherly concern, it's obvious this woman only looks to her own selfish desires, meaning that if she got what she wanted, Rapunzel would never leave the tower.

Huh?

It's just this:  what occurred to me while watching the movie was not only that Kelly loves our kids now, she loves them then.

Kelly's love for our kids is felt now, and if God so chose to take her from us tonight, her love would be felt by them for the rest of their lives.  It is so foundational to who she is that her absence would not be enough to make them doubt.  She instills in them a deep sense of not just doing what's right, but knowing why it's right.   More than anything in the world, she wants to see Jonah and Hannah fall in love with Jesus, and follow Him all their lives.

What more could I ask for in the mother of my kids?

I love you, dear.  Happy Mother's Day, from us all.