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Be a Blessing to Mom

Grab

Mom’s favorite juice, coffee, or tea

Muffins or bagels

Flower in a vase

Paper and markers or crayons

Go

Choose a morning and dedicate it to blessing Mom with your daughter. Get up together early in the morning and make Mom a special card. List the things that you love about her and thank her for all she does for your family.

Prepare Mom’s favorite juice, coffee, or tea, and put together a simple breakfast for her. Place the breakfast, card, and flower on a tray and treat her to breakfast in bed.

After breakfast, spend some time with your daughter serving Mom in creative ways. Take a trash bag and clean out her car. Take her shopping list and run errands for her so she can relax. Shop for a thoughtful gift, like a flower to plant in the yard, a set of scented bath items, a pretty pen or calendar for her purse, or a bag of freshly ground gourmet coffee. Maybe there’s a honey-do project you’ve been putting off for a while that your daughter could help you with.

However you spend your time, keep Mom in the center of your thoughts and conversation. Use the time to talk about why Mom is special to each of you. Brainstorm together about ways you can be a blessing to her every single day.

Dad to Dad

Perhaps Mom isn’t living with you at this time. If this is due to a divorce or separation, it is a tremendous benefit to your daughter to see the way you honor her mother. We love like Christ when we serve others selflessly without expecting anything in return.

If you are parenting alone for other reasons, choose another woman who is significant in your daughter’s life whom you can serve together. A teacher, a friend, or a close relative will appreciate your thanks for her part in caring for your daughter.

Grow

A mother’s life centers around the well-being of her family. She juggles countless details to keep the household running and make sure each person in the family is cared for. Sometimes she runs out of time or energy to take care of herself. Recognizing her loving efforts and taking the time to lighten her load, even for one day, means so much to a busy mom!

Read Proverbs 31:10–31 with your daughter. Take note of the ways that Mom compares to the wife and mother in the passage. Does she get up early to make school lunches? Does she juggle a career on top of managing the household? Does she encourage each of you with her words? Today you took the time to “arise and call her blessed” (v. 28)!

Dear Lord,

Thank you for the gift of Mom! She loves us so much, in so many ways. We see your love for us through her words and the way she takes care of us. Please teach us how to encourage her each day. Help us to be faithful to care for her just like she is always there for us. Bless her in every way. Amen!