Our 2nd Mother's Day

This year is the second time J boy celebrating Mother's Day with me.... :) Feels like time files so fast!!! Although his dad as usual did not "respect" and "prepare" anything to celebrate I'm just feel so thankful to God and feel blessed by the Almighty Him for the lil' J which comes into my life. J boy is truely a blessing from God & mommy hope you will grow up to be a responsible & wise young man, not like your idiotic father!

This was an interesting book - "A Fairy Godmom's Book of Reminders", written by Julie Wheaton and Patrece Powers. Below are some of the things which I find relevant & comforting:

- If we moms share anything, it's the experience of change.

- When you allow yourself to become a mother and think of that as growing into and creating your new self, you have a much easier time. You don't come from a place of expectation and demand; rather, you focus more on observation and intuition. In developing awareness, you find confidence.

- Life is not a dress rehearsal. We make our own choices, and we live the real life. As the current commercial says, "having a baby changes everything". Allow the changes to occur.

- As parents, something we can always share with our children is to be authentic human beings. Our children need us, as parents, to live as true to ourselves as possible. We need that for ourselves as well.

- Take a moment to focus on what you love about yourself and the new things that you're doing as a mom that you never dreamed would be a part of your life.

- Recalling the early days of dating/marriage: Going back to "the way we were" is an image. We can't go back any more than younger couples can advance forward to where we are now.

- In your husband caring for your child/ren: There's more than my way to care for our children. Our styles are different, but the priorities are the same.

- The more I begin with myself, the more I find my children joining me. Being myself is more important than being mom; being myself will take care of being mom.

- Participate in the experiences that are in front of us.

- We believe that we can choose what kind of mom we will be ahead of time: Stay-at-home mom. Cookies and milk mom. Working mom. Single mom. Married mom. Yet we don't choose the kind of children we will be mothers to.

- Even if we decide how our lives will look like after we become mothers, we're only guessing. What we do know is that we signed up for the experience of motherhood. As we face each experience, we instinctively know what we want from that experience.