HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!

Happy Mother's Day to all of the moms in my life and to all of my dear friends who know I still may need some motherly advice every now and again.

Being a mother is a tough gig. It comes with much despair however the happiness it can hold is beyond imagination. When we become a mother, an understanding that our life must change envelopes us. No longer watching out for ourselves, our children become our first and only priority.

When our children fail, we bleed...when our children succeed, we triumph. Every emotion they discover along the journey we feel with an intensity second to none. We lie awake hoping for a life better than our own for our little ones. We hope they will find happiness, true love, less hurts, more joy...it is just what we do. We want to protect them from the pain that living can bring yet we know they must find their own way much of the time. As mother's we are there to pick them up, brush them off, and move them along their path.

We kiss their sorrows away, nurse them back to health when required, and make sacrifices they will not comprehend. We are to blame for all that is wrong in their world yet when things are at their toughest they return to seek the comfort of their mother's arms.

We may not always hear thank you, or I love you, or you are the best...many times we get the complete opposite. Think back to when you were young, there is a cyclical nature to things. What you now appreciate in regards to your mother, your children will as well when they are old enough to understand.

Do something beautiful today, on your special day...love yourself and give yourself well-deserved kudos. Know that you are without a doubt the best mother you know how to be, that the love you feel for your children is unwavering, supportive, and blind...as it was meant to be.