What Being a Mother Means to Me!

In the spirit of Mother's Day, I thought it was a good day to reflect on what being a mother means to me. Believe it or not, some of my views have changed just in the last month. When they say every kid is different they sure aren't lying. What worked for Carter doesn't work for Link.

Just like every adult learns, acts, and reacts differently to things, so do children. I think this is the most important lesson I've learned over the last two and a half years. It's so important to learn your child's strengths, weakness', and quirks. And it's not about fixing them, it's about working with them and teaching our children how to do the same!

To me, being a mother also means...

*trusting your instincts
*putting your children first
*putting yourself first sometimes too (hello "me" time!)
*you are a fool to not accept help when offered
*hugs and kisses whenever you want, at least for now!
*losing sleep, a lot of it!
*swearing as you get out of bed at 3am and then feeling more love then you can handle two seconds later when you walk in to your child's room and see them
*reading advise from experts and then forgetting 80% of it because it doesn't work for you...on to the next book!
*being a helicopter parent
*trying not to be a helicopter parent
*smiling and nodding every time someone assumes every whimper your child makes means they are hungry
*having the magical power to fix boo-boo's with just a kiss
*never ending worry
*never ending love

There's probably a million more I could come up with but it's literally taken every free second today, and not free second (I'm nursing right now), to write this so that will have to do!

Oh, and *being very very busy ALL the time!