As a child I had two dresses that I loved. They are the only dresses I remember.

One dress was a green and white checked dress my mother made from flour sacks. I was very young when she made the dress. She was surprised when I mentioned the dress after I became an adult and told her how much I loved the dress. She said I was only 4 years old.

The other dress was the first and only Easter dress I remember ever having. It was the prettiest dress I had ever had. Not long before Easter we moved to a state where the weather was colder than where we had been living.

All I remember about that dress is how pretty it was and how cold my sister and I were in our short sleeve pretty dresses when we went to church on Easter Sunday.

I think about those two dresses often and how happy they made me. I am so thankful for a loving, praying mother that worked hard to see her girls never went without basic needs.