Naomi's Blessing day

I have a love hate relationship with my children getting blessed. I love putting my babies in their beautiful white blessing clothes and feeling the spirit during the blessings. I felt the spirit so strong when Naomi was blessed when Paul said Naomi's full name Naomi Floralba Smith. Floralba is Pauls moms name she died last year the middle of April. It was so hard for all of us. It was hard to not have her there when Naomi was born but we new she was just with her before she was born and felt her presence. It was hard to not have her there on Naomi's blessing day, but I felt that she was there right when Paul said her name. She was an amazing woman and I learned so much from her. I am always teaching my sisters how she cooked or how she cleaned. My sisters would say why do it that way and I would say I don't know Pauls mom always did and it worked way better. I wish she was there to spend the day with us, but it still turned out great. I told Paul that it took three children to finally figure out how to have the blessing day with less stress. I always stressed out trying to feed all of Pauls family and mine. Paul family has over 30 grandchildren plus my family with aunts and uncles and more kids. This time we blessed the baby at 9:00 and had the whole family stay for all of the meetings while I went home and got everything ready and feed the baby. It was so nice to have everything ready and sit and enjoy everyones company compared to running around with my head cut off and having 40 people ask me what they could do to help. I will always have it this way it was so much better.