By the time y'all read this column, many will have spent yesterday celebrating mothers both here and passed.  For those of us with toddlers to teens, we may have been honored with special tokens of love.  As a volunteer at a weekly community church program called GoFriends!, I saw first hand oodles of precious crafts from hearts, hand prints, to planted flowers in red solo cups nonetheless, LOL!  All were beautiful and carefully crafted by children eager to share their prize with mom on Mother’s Day. With my forth and last little one to climb the ranks of elementary school here in our town, I was thrilled to see my Levi barrel across the church to show me his gift.  Unable to wait until the actual day, I was honored with my creation three days early, when he got off the bus for GoFriends!. As he ran down the aisle of the church, I could see the large picture with Levi’s painted hands framing a poem carefully colored by my little artist.  From two pews away, I recognized the three … [Read more...]