The topic of the November GWP at MammBlogga is:
"I'm grateful for my child because . . . "
Well, because I'm her mom. I have to be grateful, right? It's in the job description. "Wake up every morning totally blissed out and grateful to be THE MOM." "Cherish each and every moment." "EACH AND EVERY MOMENT!" Are you cherishing? Are you? You better be!
"It goes so fast . . ."
Soft focus / warm and fuzzy . . .
Who needs that kind of pressure? Not me. And, definitely, not my daughter.
Motherhood is not one long montage of precious moments. There are days when my gratitude for my daughter gets buried beneath huge piles of exasperation, irritation, and 14 loads of laundry. I admit that I have days when I forget that I'm supposed to be "cherishing." But, even on the very worse days, deep down, I'm always grateful for my child because . . .
She's real life. Right in front of me.
She's real love. The kind you're willing to die for.
She's the best part of me. Mine, and, yet, her own.
My heart.
Thursday, November 8, 2007
"Cherish"
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this is a great post! honest and heartwarming...
Brilliant!
Yup.
Honesty. That's why I don't go in for carnivals of gratitude. They can feel like the Death March of Gratitude.
I'm grateful for my heartbeat AND the pause between heartbeats too.
Beautifully said! :)
i love it. you got it just right!
so, so true. It's impossible to cherish every moment..I certainly am not cherishing the moments my daughter is flailing around on the floor screaming at the top of her lungs. Instead, I will cherish the moment she is done and ready to climb into my lap :)
Plus I think that if you are constantly trying to "cherish" the moment, you kind of miss out on the realness of that moment-the good and bad of it.
great post!
amen. :)
a tear...
i love the idea of 30 days of thanks. so thank you for your wonderful blog - i am a loyal reader now.
Thank you! I'm glad you guys liked the post!
Sentimentality is rather poisonous. It is just not real. It kind of feels like a mocking, a taunt, a sugar coated blame game.
so, I love this post.
do I love my son? Hell yeah. do I cherish? Well, honestly, when he';s hitting me and/or spitting food out, quite frankly no, I do not.
Mother love is really quite fierce and sometimes we don't want to see this.
I love that you go there.
I struggled with the topic for that very reason ... I started to wonder if I was grateful for anything and then the guilt was piling on. Thanks for your post and making me feel so not alone.
Exactly!
What a lovely post.
Oh, I do MORE than my share of sentimental. And, I struggled with the prompt, too. I just wanted something a little different, I guess.
Great post. It would be a lot of pressure on Baby Puppy if you were constantly in a state of maternal bliss. Good to show them by example that the downtimes are important, too.
hi there. i found the link for this post on bella's page.
wow! amen! *clap clap clap!* my daughters are now 16 and 19. the journey has been long, unromantic, and though laiden with loads of love, there were many many days of unrewarding moments.
humility humility humility. and i shed tears as much as them during the toddler days.
great post!
:) maria
Love it! Briefly said and right to the heart of things.
Thank you for this post! After reading so many beautiful entries about how wonderful everyone's children are, and how grateful all these mothers are, I was beginning to worry that I was a horrible person because I'm not grateful all the time!
Thanks for participating!
Yes. Great post, true in every sense.
Of course we all struggle to cherish those awful moments but they are our everything none the less.
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