The last time, last year, they asked me because my husband volunteered me, talking to our bishop (minister) about my blog (they asked my husband to speak with me, so we were even). My talk, which took about 15 minutes, was my post last year for Mother’s Day, too.

Good luck with your comments!

This is an interesting topic to see you addressing just now, because I was just asked last week to prepare a 5-minute speech about “what my mom did right” to give at her church on Mother’s day (a surprise, but I don’t figure she’ll see me mention it here).

I asked the pastor to clarify the purpose, since there are a lot of young moms and I couldn’t tell if this was a “teach the young” moment or just about her/us.

“Just, honor your mom,” he said. “And if the young moms come away with one useful thing that will be enough.”

So I’ve written this 5-minute speech around the idea that my mom created my criteria for friendship. I’m really excited about it now, especially since right before I got asked we were studying this commandment in Sunday School and I was praying for a specific way to honor my parents.

It is directly honoring to my mother b/c it is about her, but it is also honoring my father, b/c he’s the one who first asked me to do it, and it seemed hard for him to ask, but he was pleased I accepted.

I hope to post the speech as a blog post once Mother’s Day is past (so it’s a genuine surprise).