It is for this reason that whenever I feel those motherly feelings I immediately reflect on my own mother during my growing up years and feel that much more appreciation, respect, guilt, and love for her. All the skinned knees, broken hearts, hurtful teenage words, bad decisions and life struggles that she watched me suffer through and undoubtedly suffered silently beside me. All the while soothing, waiting, listening, patient, supportive, and loving me through it all, putting her own feelings aside for my own.
My mom has so many amazing qualities including but nowhere near limited to- her ability to laugh at herself ("you think life's funny or something?"), her frugal nature, knack for organizing, solving any problem you throw at her, eloquent writing, and of course her landscaping skills with a simple pair of scissors (true story) :).
So, Whenever I feel those tinges of doubt or insecurity about my abilites as a mom, I simply reflect on my mom, and her mom (grama dixie), and even her mom(grama D) and I realize that all of these amazing women have shaped the mom that I am today. Then I am put at ease knowing that Charlotte is one lucky girl to have inherited these wonderful "mommy genes".
Thankyou Mom for everything you do for me and my daughter and family and also thankyou to all of the amazing mommy role models in my life: Karen, Grama Dixie, Aunt Lu, Deedee, Sue, Aunt Wanda, Aunt Jenny, Granny, Aunt Dana, Kelly Ryan, and Mrs. Joyce.
Have a wonderful Mother's Day....I love you!
first day of mommyhood
like mother, like daughter
2 generations of mommies
3 generations of mommies
2 of the best moms in the world!
"baby hogging"
note the scissors in her hip pocket!
Grama Dixie and her girl
smooches
6 comments:
sniff, sniff...thank you Meghan for being an amazing daughter to me and mommy to Charlotte. I used to say that "I love you more than you know" but now that you are a mom yourself you know exactly how I feel. Happy Mother's Day and thank you so much for that beautiful tribute.
That made my cry. I had no idea you could write like (they don't call ya Terry Wright's daughter for nothing ya know!)
You are so very lucky to have such a wonderful mother, she really is an amazing woman.
Happy Mothers Day Meg, you to are an amazing mother.
Happy first Mother's Day Meghan. You are a great mom.
Meghan, what a wonderful tribute to your mom. She really is a special person. In your writings, I realize something of similarity with your mom, that even I didn't know...I used to say to Paul," I love you more than a big ball..more than our house and even more than the big world. That saying brings thoughts of what we have in our hearts of our children.
I want to thank you for including me in the mom's list that have given you the "Light" of being a mom. That means a lot to me.
As I see you now with the strengths of the mom's in your life, I see what a good mom you are. Happy Mother's Day, to you.
Love you....
I'm with Aunt Lu on this one!! You brought a tear to my eye and you obviously have been hiding the same writing ability that your mom and sister have! Having a child definitely brings out feelings you never knew you were capable of having!! I hope you had a happy mother's day!!!
beautiful, meghan...
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