I remember my Mom telling me when I was in high school that I would “understand” one day……when I had children of my own.
I now know what she meant.
Mother’s Day has a whole new meaning now that I am a Mom of two small children. Not because I am the one getting the handwritten cards and paper flowers with pipe cleaner stems, but because I know now how my Mother’s heart felt the day I took my first step….when I fell and broke my front tooth….the day I started kindergarten…the day I moved out……the day I got married…….the day she watched as I became a Mother.
The day you become a Mom the whole world changes. It gets really scary. The pavement seems harder. The corners on furniture are sharper. The stairs steeper. The diseases deadlier. You are now the protector of this precious life that you carried in your body for 40 weeks. You never knew your heart could grow so big. You never knew you were so strong and yet so vulnerable at the very same time. Your heart breaks with each fall and grows twice as big with the next triumph. You know the peace that only comes from a sleeping baby warm in your embrace. You can manage on surprisingly little sleep. You can feel happy, sad, mad, glad, frustrated and elated all in the course of about two minutes.
You now completely understand the definition of “unconditional”. You realize your Mom really was right……..about everything.
I read this a while ago and really thought it was all so very true about being a mom. I feel all of those things. It’s hard being a mom! I enjoy your blog very much. I used to visit Marshall with my mom usually during the summer. We would go through the shops and walk the streets looking at the beautiful older homes. I would always imagine myself living there. You are so lucky you get to live there, it is such a great small town.
Thanks for the blog…i’m happy i at least know two people who live there and can hear about the town happenings through facebook:)
Thanks,
Beth