M is for Mom

Of all the names I'm called, this is my favorite. I hope to be called mom by more than just one someday soon.

Being a mom is such a wonderful thing. Oh sure, there's the obvious free extra holiday a year with more gifts and fun hugs and kisses, but it's so much more! (I forget, dry humor doesn't necessarily translate on these posts...)

Being a mom is a job, but it is one with the biggest benefits plan ever. As a mom I have laughed, cried, and run the gamut of emotions in one day. But the real truth of motherhood is this: you will never be the same. Whether that is cliche or not, it is true. Motherhood makes you more independent and dependent at the same time, stronger and weaker in one, elated and terrified at once. Motherhood is at the core of who a woman is. Ask about her career, her likes and dislikes, in the middle of it all are her children. I don't care whether you're 16 or 43, being a mom makes you a member of a special club. A club of people who "get it" that for one moment, you have made the world better. For one moment, you were part of a miracle and now, you get to live the rest of life knowing you're participating in generations of history to come. That is the one job that trumps all others on the resume. And know that I sound like a sappy hallmark card and I'm ready to cry (ah, hormones), I'm going to go to bed and dream of M!