Happy Mother’s Day!
Hi all you Mothers, mother-to-be, women wishing you were mothers, women just finding out that you are going to be mothers, women taking steps to not be mothers after all, and aunties, grandmas, and friends,
This is a little late night Mother’s Day post about moms.
Links: This week at Postsecret all the posts are about moms.
Thoughts about being a mum: Can you imagine birthing a child into the world? I wish I had at least two hundred years to live because I want at least three lives. I could have a whole life without my own children. I could have adventures and travel the world and flirt and have lovers well into my old age.
I also want to live the life of a mom in a small cottage with at least 4 kids, kids spilling out of the cottage, and a hot husband who loves just me, well, just me and the kids and the whole wide world, and a farmer’s market and a garden and a bike that I ride by the sea. Since I’m not sure how long I’m going to live, I know which life I choose
Loving/Hating our mums: How are you with your mom? I have a starry eyed little girl admiration for my mom right now. I think she is so pretty and so smart and does so many good things. I’m so proud that she’s my mom. It wasn’t always this way. I used to hate my mom, even while I loved her, and for many years I didn’t think I would ever have a good relationship with her. So, I feel so lucky to admire her and have a good relationship with her now. It is very amazing how our lives have changed.
If you have a good relationship with your mom, I’m so glad. If you don’t, I hope for you a positive change that you can hardly believe now, or, at least, peace within yourself about your relationship.
Forgiving our moms: I know it can be hard to forgive our moms because they mean SO much to us, and because of that, we can be SO hurt by them. I never tell people to forgive, because that is your own business. Only you can decide if you want to forgive a “debt” or not. And even if you decide you want to forgive, it might not be so easy; it might take years and years. Being able to forgive is probably my one true experience of grace.
Mother’s Day is brought to you by the word “Peace:” Did you know that Mother’s Day started as a peace movement? Julia Ward Howe was getting just a little sick of all the fighting going on and wrote a Mother’s Day proclamation in 1870. Here is part of it:
“We will not have questions answered by irrelevant agencies,
Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage,
For caresses and applause.
Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.
We, the women of one country,
Will be too tender of those of another country
To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.”
Happy Mother’s Day!
Wishing you all peace, inside and out.
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