Mother's day poem

Does anyone have a simple mother's day poem to place inside a mothers day card?

I am using this one:
Sometimes you get discouraged
Because I am so small
And always leave my fingerprints
on furniture and walls

But everyday I'm growing
I'll be grown some day
And all those tiny handprints
Will surely fade away

So here's a little handprint
Just so you can recall
exactly how my fingers looked
when I was very small

This poem is not good for a card, but as a mother myself I love to read it every now and then to remember what is really important at the end of the day :)
Today I left some dishes dirty
The bed got made around two-thirty
The crumbs I spilled the day before
Were staring at me from the floor
The fingerprints there on the wall
I guess will still be there next fall.
"For shame, oh lazy one," you say
"And just what did you do today?"
I rocked a baby 'til she slept
I held a toddler while he wept
I played a game of hide and seek
I squeezed a toy so it would squeak
I pulled a sled, I sang a song
I taught a child what's right from wrong.
What did I do this whole day through?
Not much shows, I guess it's true
Unless you think what I have done
Might be important to someone
With bright blue eyes and soft blond hair
If that is true, I've done my share.
- Katherine Mai

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Originally Posted by michellesmunchkins

I am using this one:
Sometimes you get discouraged
Because I am so small
And always leave my fingerprints
on furniture and walls

But everyday I'm growing
I'll be grown some day
And all those tiny handprints
Will surely fade away

So here's a little handprint
Just so you can recall
exactly how my fingers looked
when I was very small

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I traced the children's hands in green paper to be stems, drew a pot for the bottom and we glued foam flowers on the top of the 5 fingers/thumb for the front of our card and I used your poem. It was perfect. Thanks!

Oh I love your flower idea to go with the poem!