Mother's Day 2025

God has blessed us with great mothers and mothers of our children and today was the day to celebrate them and show them our love for all they do and for the godly mothers they are.  We prayed and feasted and enjoyed conversation around the supper table.

L to R (Mom, my sister Jenny, and Tricia)

We had quite a menu: pastalaya with green onion and garlic sausage, spiral ham, pot roast and rice and gravy, fresh roasted vegetables, boudin, zucchini cake and ice cream.  We pushed away from the table with taut bellies, satisfied not only with the blessing of delicious food, but in the knowledge that God has given us wonderful Mothers.

My niece, Elle and daughter Mary Grace, Jenny, Mom & Tricia

All six of my sister's boys were here, but one son, Carson, had already left at the time of this photo.  Russ and Benjamin were here, but Laura Lee was unable to make it.  We missed her terribly.

Last but not least, my wonderful wife and mother of my children with her young men, of whom she is so proud:

Benjamin, Tricia, and Russ

Happy Mother's Day!

Here's to Mothers!

 

We had a big weekend!  We topped it off with a big celebration for Mother's Day today.  And you know what?  We were so busy visiting and eating, that not a single picture was taken.  I'm so disappointed!  How can this be?  Anyway, on Friday, we took photos that include two very important mothers in my life: my Mom (on right) and the Mother of my children (on the left).  Not pictured in my Mother-in-law, who is in Corpus Christi, Texas. 

As I sit and think about it, what in the world would I do without those women?  My mom raised me and my two siblings and put up with a lot of craziness from us.  I count myself to be so blessed and fortunate to have been reared in a two parent, loving, supportive home.  I cannot begin to imagine the sacrifices that mom made and continues to make for me.  There is no way to adequately thank her for it.  I love you, Mom!

And Tricia, the mother of my children.  I'm so blessed by God to have a spouse like her.  She has given so much to me and the kids.  She works tirelessly to give us her very best in all she does.  She is a Proverbs 31 woman.  I am also so fortunate to have a loving, supportive mother-in-law.  

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I love you, Mom!  I love you, Tricia!  I love you, Mrs. Garcia!

A Day to Celebrate Mothers

Mother's Day 2022.  We started out by attending church.  It was a glorious morning.  Before we took off our "church clothes," I had the boys (Benjamin on left, Russ on right) sit with their momma and take a photo to commemorate the big day.  We ate a light lunch since we were planning on having a crawfish boil in the late afternoon.  Along with Tricia, Russ, Benjamin and me, Mom & Dad were coming and my sister Jenny, her husband, Brett and her six boys and a girlfriend of the oldest.

The crawfish came from our farm.  The were graded, big and clean...

Monsters!  We had three sacks of roughly 28 pounds per sack to boil.  Time to get the show on the road.

We added the crawfish boil seasoning to the water, along with corn, potatoes, onion and garlic and then dumped the first sack into the water.

In about 5 minutes, the first batch was done!  We got these ready to pour on the table and then readied the next batch to boil while we ate.

And here are the lovely honorees of the day.  My mom on the left, my sister, Jenny, in the middle, and my bride, Tricia on the right.

We poured them out along the long tables and the crawfish quickly started to disappear.  It was like magic.

Mom sat down and peeled crawfish after crawfish.  They were seasoned good and we visited while we ate.  It was a hot afternoon, but we were in the shade and a cool breeze would blow from time to time.

There's my sister getting into a crawfish pincher.

And my wife on the left eating some as well.

We thought we would have some left over to peel and freeze for etouffee, but we did not!  We ate every last one of them.  Once finished, we had room for ice cream and a lemon dessert.  We pulled our chairs around in a circle in the shade and talked and laughed and remembered funny things.  It was a very pleasant time.  We made some memories.  Before we knew it, the sun was sinking below the horizon.  What a great day we had celebrating some very special mothers!