As shared before (in the previous issue) ; I am a mother and I am SO looking forward to Mother’s Day!!
I love seeing what the kids made, I love waking up to the noise of them trying to make me breakfast in bed, I love that my kids tell me they love me, another extra time.
Sure, totally set up by corporations trying to make a buck from all of us – exploiting our wallets, trying to convince us that Mum REALLY needs flowers and OF COURSE a gift too. But you know what – I don’t care! I ignore all that kind of ‘noise’ around me anyway. Unless the ad shows a REALLY good deal of course ;)
I need it, I take it, any expression of love by my family! I am such a sucker for traditional things… yes, I totally get immersed into Christmas too!! LOVE Easter breakfast…. Just to name a few…
When it’s Father’s Day I love going that extra little step just to make sure he knows he is loved and appreciated. He works so damn hard!
For me it has nothing to do with money spent, I don’t buy presents as such… but having the kids make a card, paint a picture, write a note, make the breakfast – hey, if I could have it every day, I would HAPPILY take it
Are you hard on yourself as a parent? I am! I always feel I fail – always feel I should do better – always worry I am like my mother
(don’t get me
started!) and worry
that later in life they
will just move away…lol So Mother’s Day is PERFECT for my ego, my insecurities, and for my ‘feeling loved’ – I love it and I hope that every mum out there feels that extra little boost of love!
I read this article recently – well, actually I skim read it as my thoughts drifted on the subject so I am sorry, I don’t have a source reference for you…. But what I took from that was this guy saying that us parents should stop feeling guilty when we can’t do it all….
We should take the pressure off ourselves because he believed that when we have kids, they should fit in our life. We should NOT have to adjust everything that makes us the people we are – what makes us happy. We shouldn’t have to sacrifice our whole being JUST so the kids get what they want
And OHH I agree!!
To raise really well behaved, kind and happy souls we need to show our kids what we do that makes us happy. And you know what?
For me that does NOT mean that I have to spend every waking moment with them… it also doesn’t mean that it is bad for them to know that we work our asses off to get them the best things in life.
Proud
mother
‘OPINIONATED
RAMBLINGS
by Carrie Hazzard ’
Mrs Hazzard, a middle aged woman, mum and wife - in that order. Never quiet and always opinionated.
Any subject will do and any questions asked will be answered - never a dull moment in my brain!!
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