Happy Mother’s Day 2013

Mother’s Day. A day that I can be proud. A day that I can truly appreciate my own Mother. A day that I can sit back and reflect on the past 4 years that I’ve been a mother. Though I feel as if all Mother’s everywhere should be appreciated and recognized everyday of the year, it’s nice to know their is one day set aside to remind ourselves just how special our Mom’s should be. A day to put the busy days behind us, a day to give a simple kiss, a simple note to say “I love you Mom.” I’m one of the lucky ones. I had a very caring, nerchuring, giving mother all of my life. I still do. That makes me lucky. The only thing I can hope and pray for is that some day my children can feel the same way about me as I do about my own Mother.

I had the joy of becoming a Mother on October 27, 2010. I thought I became a Mom the day I found out I was pregnant, I really had no idea what that love would consist of until I gave birth that day in October two and a half years ago. I love my family, I love my husband in a way I’ve never loved any man, but the day I met my daughter, was the day I experienced a love that I never thought was imaginable. You can’t explain it to anyone unless they’ve experienced it themselves. It was the day that Tammi was no longer just “Tammi”. It was the day that my husband and I no longer came first,  it was the day that any piece of selfishness I had left within in me…… faded away. I knew my life would forever change, I just had no idea how much……in a good way of course.

When I look at my daughter and see myself in her eyes, I see that I’ve become a mother.

When I grocery shop and I’m told by 8 different strangers in one trip that my daughter is beautiful, I am a proud mother.

When my daughter cries for me in the middle of the night, I am a mother.

When my son proudly kicks through my belly, I’m already a mother of two.

When I drop into bed at 8:30 at night exhausted from a day full of sun, fun, giggles and tears, I truly feel like a mother.

What I’m saying is it doesn’t take much to become a mother, we all know “how” it happens, but what does it mean to really “be” a mother? All these questions and many more I ask myself when I think of a day like Mother’s Day. I know some people who no longer have their moms. My heart aches for them. My heart is filled with joy when I see my mother with my daughter. When my husband and I moved the first of the year, thanks to my mother we were able to buy a house big enough to include an in-law, now my daughter gets to see her “Nunny” everyday, so will my son. I’ll get to see my mother light up on a daily basis when she sees my children, it’s truly a gift to have that kind of relationship with your mother and children. I don’t know what I’d do without her. I’ve learnt a lot about life through my own life experiences, but I’ve also learnt a lot through my mother and her life experiences.

So on a day like today treasure her. Reach out to her. Love her. If you don’t have your mother, remember her, honor her and still…….Love her.