Any woman can give birth to a child, but it takes a special kind of woman to mother that child and raise them up in a loving, nurturing and uplifting way. What does being a mother mean? Being around my mother, grandmothers, and aunts for 18 years and being a mother myself for the last 8 years, I think I have a pretty good idea what being a mother means. Behold, the definition of a mother...
M is for Multitasker. Have you ever seen a non-mother (a.k.a. father) breastfeed an infant while feeding a toddler lunch and talking on the phone at the same time? Or cooking a dinner while helping kids with homework and playing Angry Birds on the computer? Didn't think so.
O is for Omniscient. Because we know EVERYTHING our children do and if we don't know, we pretend to know until they confess to whatever it is we didn't know we knew they did. This goes for husbands as well...
T is for Teacher. We are constantly teaching our children new things like how to talk, how to walk, how to eat, how to tie their shoes, how to do their homework and how to signal when daddy's about to walk into the office so we can ex out the Facebook tab and continue as if we were working the whole time (or maybe that's just me).
H is for Housekeeper. "A place for everything and everything in its place!" I'm pretty sure a mother made that saying up.
E is for Everlasting. Our love is everlasting, our words endure in the hearts of our children, the impressions we make on them are endless and the memories of us in them are eternal.
R is for Retriever. We find everything from lost socks to missing keys and even misplaced children (not our own of course, but someone else's child).
I had a great Mother's Day today. Kids gave me a heart balloon bouquet and made me Mother's Day cards, then we went to church, ate Japanese for lunch, took pictures in a photobooth as part of a Mother's Day expo thingy-ma-jig at the mall, and then stuffed our faces with ice cream, donuts, and other snacks.
Leave it to my kids to make me homemade cards decorated with pictures of them handing me the homemade card. LOL. It was a great day and I hope you had an awesome Mother's Day too!













