Mother's Day
I think I always wanted to be a mother, even before I knew what it meant (or took, for that matter) to be a mom. When my parents used to ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I said, "A mommy!" I thought being a mom was the coolest thing in the world. My mom used to tease me and say that she learned things in "Mom School." I believed this so wholeheartedly that I even told friends I was going to Mom School for college. I was in elementary school, so who could blame me for believing that there truly was a Mom School. The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. ~Rajneesh I don't think that I ever was really prepared for what motherhood truly encompassed. You fear more, you worry, you love harder, you think of things you never would have considered before. It's an amazing thing, being a mom. We ...