As a new Mom, I am grasping how absolutely incredible My Mom is. I have always known she is amazing, but every day, I realize how wonderful she is in another way.
In ways like how she stayed at home Mom with one child, away from all family and most friends. How she made (mostly) Delicious and always Nutritious meals for 3, and soon 8 every day for over 25 years! In growing a Herbalife business with 1,2,3, 4, 5 and 6 kids! Actually, doing everything she did with that many kids! One of the best examples of her strength, ingenuity and pure guts was that she took all 8 of her family members around the world for an entire year! It boggles my mind!
Every step of pregnancy and now motherhood I wonder how one would do it with another child -LET ALONE 6! I have not figured it out, but she did it brilliantly with wisdom and grace.
I am grateful for her incredible example of selflessness, love, intelligence, intuition, spirituality and care. She is my HERO!
Even though I am a mother myself now, I am still her little girl, going to her when I have problems and successes. I still watch her - as Brooklyn sometimes does with me - with amazement and interest. I still hope to be more like her someday.
Happy Mothers Day MOM!
I have also been blessed with other incredible mother figures. Incredible women like Judy, Ginger, my Grandmothers, and Nana as well as many other women that I look up to and have learned arts of motherhood from.
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you! You Deserve every gift and kind word, hug and kiss that comes to you this day!Love Paige
Finally, here is a little Mother's day poem that hit home for me and I wanted to share it.
Before I was a Mom, I never tripped over toys or forgot words to a lullaby.
I had never been puked on. Pooped on. Chewed on. Peed on.
I had complete control of my mind and my thoughts. I slept all night..
I never looked into teary eyes and cried. I never got gloriously happy over a simple grin.
I never sat up late hours at night watching a baby sleep.
Before I was a Mom, I never held a sleeping baby just because I didn't want to put her down.
I never felt my heart break into a million pieces when I couldn't stop the hurt.
I never knew that something so small could affect my life so much.
I never knew that I could love someone so much. I never knew I would love being a Mom.
Before I was a Mom, I didn't know the feeling of having my heart outside my body.
I didn't know how special it could feel to feed a hungry baby
I didn't know that bond between a mother and her child.
I didn't know that something so small could make me feel so important and happy.
Before I was a Mom, I had never gotten up in the middle of the night
every 10 minutes to make sure all was okay.
I had never known the warmth, the joy, the love, the heartache, the wonderment
or the satisfaction of being a Mom.
I didn't know I was capable of feeling so much, before I was a Mom.
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