I am eating up every precious moment with Gavin but I can't wait for this sweet face to look at me and smile with recognition. It will be his way of telling me he loves me. And I will never get tired of hearing it!!
Monday, April 18, 2011
Motherly Love
I have always appreciated what my mom has done for me throughout my life. She has been a great teacher and a wonderful best friend. However, you can never really appreciate what your mother has really done for you until you become one yourself. I have only been a mom for two weeks but I already fully realize what my mom did and continues to do for me. My mom left to go back home today and I was seized with fear as I watched her and Dad walk away to their plane. I have no idea how I am going to do any of this without her. No doubt I will learn and of course I have my extremely helpful husband but I will always need my mom. She was such an amazing, huge help to Chad and I as we were learning to adjust to our new life with Gavin. If it wasn't for her my kitchen would be buried in dirty dishes, Chad and I would more than likely have starved and I would have never known that Gavin likes to suck on my pinky knuckle while he is having a diaper change. And I will miss her the most when 4:00 am hits me tomorrow morning and I will have to get Gavin and feed him and rock him back to sleep. (That was Mom's shift when she was here!) It will be tough without her and I am gripped with fear that I won't be half the mother she is to me. But the only thing that sets me at ease is that she gave me all the tools I need to be a good mother to Gavin. As long as I follow her foot steps, I can't really go wrong. So make sure to tell your mom you love her and appreciate her. Don't wait until Mother's Day or automatically assume she already knows. She's your mother, she will never get tired of hearing it.
I am eating up every precious moment with Gavin but I can't wait for this sweet face to look at me and smile with recognition. It will be his way of telling me he loves me. And I will never get tired of hearing it!!
I am eating up every precious moment with Gavin but I can't wait for this sweet face to look at me and smile with recognition. It will be his way of telling me he loves me. And I will never get tired of hearing it!!
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A few weeks after Hayes was born, I was ending a phone conversation with my Mom. I told her "I love you" just like I had done after every single phone conversation we had ever had. However, after this she said to me, "I love you more." She had never said this to me until that day. Before becoming a mother myself I would have argued with her about who loved who more, but after she said that to me, all I could say was, "I know." The amount of love that we have for our own children definitely helps us to appreciate how much our Mothers, and Fathers, love us.
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