A Mother's Day I Will NEVER Forget

My Kids have always been so thoughtful, sweet and creative on special occasions such as my birthday and Mother's Day. They would pick me wild flowers from the field behind our house and make me the sweetest cards. The night before Mother's Day when Chad was 9 years old, he came up with a brilliant idea. He thought that it would be really sweet to surprise me when I woke up the next morning if my Mother's Day card was hanging from a string in my bedroom doorway (which it would have been). Some time that night after we had gone to bed, he quietly brought a kitchen chair to my bedroom door, which was always left open. It was dark all but a faint light coming from the living room. He climbed up onto the chair with his beautifully designed card dangling from a 2 foot piece of red yarn. He reached up to tape it to the top of the door facing. He must have made a noise, because something woke me up from a deep sleep. All I could see was a black silhouette of what appeared to be a 6 foot tall man hanging by his wrist in my bedroom doorway. I sat up in bed, screamed, scared Chad, and he fell out of the chair backward. Best Mother's Day memory ever.