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Mothers Day as a single mom
Posted by: | CommentsMothers Day as a single mother is a holiday unlike any other. Especially when you have a young child.
I am assuming most of you woke up to breakfast in bed. Maybe your spouse and children presented you with gifts and hugs and kisses. Maybe he got the kids ready so you could curl your hair or shower. (a rarity in motherhood)
My day goes a bit differently.
I woke up to child begging to play Wii. I reminded him that he was supposed to wish me a Happy Mothers Day. He happily obliged…and then turned on the Wii.
Of course I got a gift from my small child. A very expensive gift I picked out and purchased just for me. (he gets me the BEST stuff)
This afternoon we are going to lunch together. Me and him. Mother and son.
This is how the conversation prior to leaving shall go:
me: Get your clothes on!
him: WHERE ARE WE GOING?!
me: to lunch
him: With who?
me: me and you
him:….noone else? by ourselves?
me: yes, get dressed
him: I DONT WANT TO. I DONT WANT TO. I DONT WANT TO.
me: ITS MOTHERS DAY
I love everything about our crazy day. Some might find mothers day of a single mom to be a bit too narcissistic. Buy your own gifts, take yourself out to lunch, remind your children how much they love you, and just how greatful they are. Take a handful of mother son portraits (with my arm directly in front of us). However, I bask in this day. Any day I can remind someone of how important I am and buy myself nice gifts is a day for me!
Happy Mothers Day!
Why Moms Need to Support Each Other
Posted by: | CommentsMothers Day is a day to say thank you to those special women in your lives. And a day for us mothers to sit back and relax. Wait….I have to get my child dressed, look decent, and spend an afternoon with the family??? Ahhhh how relaxing.
Often times we see negativity throughout the interwebs. Women attacking each other and putting others down. I felt compelled to share: 5 reasons why moms need to support each other.
1. None of us sleep.
So a blogger writes a really negative post? Sometimes we accidently offend one another. We fill posts with type-o’s and say things we don’t mean. Lets be realistic..how many of us have slept more than 6 hours a night in the past few years? Yeah, that is what I though. When someone offends you or says something that you don’t agree with…let it go! They probably didn’t sleep the night before. Maybe their child puked on them halfway through the post. It’s motherhood people lets give each other some slack!
2. There is room for us all.
We have a tendency to think this is really a dog eat dog world. Here is the deal, there is enough room on the internet for everyone. (to play nicely) There is enough room at the top for all of your kids to be rockstars. You do not have to tear people down to get on top. Now hold my hand lets sing kumbaya and get along. Because seriously, it is needed.
3. No parenting style is right.
There I said it. Constantly we are attacking each other for co-sleeping/not co-sleeping, breastfeeding/bottle feeding, spanking/time-outs, homeschool/public school/private school. Every area of parenting is a choice. No choice is right. No choice is wrong. Our children will all turn out to be decent human beings as long as we love them. So lets just parent the way we parent and love each other.
4. We all have been there.
Motherhood is filled with tears and happiness. There are moments of worry and strength. We have felt our hearts break and we have all felt those moments of pride. Motherhood is a roller coaster of emotions. Lets take on this adventure together.
5. Support is the key to success.
We all want to succeed in parenthood, in marriage, at work. We want to see our friends succeed and our partners succeed. Lets support each other in all of our ventures so we can all be successful again and again.
