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We all share a common "label" for Mother's Day |
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Sunday, May 13, 2012 |
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 Wisemommies Happy Mother’s Day
From our wisemommies’s homes to yours, we wish all mothers out there a Happy Mother’s Day.
These days it is hard to keep up with all the different labels society is putting on mothers.
Artisan mother, idealist mother, rational mother, guardian mother, tiger mom, diet mom, French mother, helicopter mom, free-range mother, and more.
No matter the adjective before the noun, the noun “mother” stays the same. We mothers are all the same in one as a MOM. We all our mothers and have so much in common starting with motherhood. Today we can celebrate our joy of motherhood together.
To all our readers, followers, supporters of wisemommies, thank you for helping us stay true to motherhood.
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Meaning and Purpose of us as Mothers |
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Saturday, May 12, 2012 |
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 Motherhood: When one of my good friends first became a mother, she told me, “motherhood will show you and your husband just how selfish you are or have been as human beings.” I started to think about this especially after having my child. It is true that once you become a mother, your role changes and your focus changes more toward others. Mothers sacrifice so much for their children. However, it is such a wonderful feeling to give, do, and love your child giving completely of yourself and kicking all selfishness to the side.
A mother’s actions, words, moods and personalities will be imitated by her children. This is a lot of responsibility resting on the shoulders of mom. Most children will perceive the world through their parents, especially their mother. Mom is often the glue of the family, the nurturer, supporter, cheerlearder, coach, and chicken noodle soup. Through the mother, children also learn the meaning of unconditional.
Moms see the best qualities in their children, giving support and constructive criticism that builds up and encourages. Mothers know their children’s weaknesses but always see the potential and are ready to offer guidance. Moms are the first to congratulate when their child succeeds and teach them the best ways “to get up” when they fall. Motherhood is an experience like nothing else.
For all mothers out there, all the different types of mothers, lets celebrate mother’s day.
Take the day, and opportunity, to at least acknowledge your mother’s efforts, show gratitude, and how much you care.
I love how Jeff Elligener, blogger for The Cup of Salvation uses scripture and writes the following: “Think about the gift of life that a mother gives to us, from God. Without her, we cannot become the expression of His image here on Earth. And she risks all to give us the opportunity,to breathe, and to live, as Eve herself did. As she is the mother of all life on Earth, so too is our own mother the origin of our individual life. In fact, we honor God Himself when we love and honor our own mothers. On this special day, may we thank God for the mothers who have molded our hearts. As we honor them, we fulfill the truth of”, “Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.” Proverbs 31:28 KJV
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High expectations for mother’s day |
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Wednesday, May 9, 2012 |
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 My First Mother’s Day and My High Expectations
I remember my first mother’s day. You could forget birthdays and Valentines, when it was my first mother’s day, I wanted trumpets to blow, a tremendous shower of presents, a day of rest, major acknowledgment, cute little homemade craft gifts, you know everything you see from the commercials.
What took place for my first mother’s day was a reality check of motherhood. First of all, your life will never be one of luxury and rest anymore. The days where you could have time and "things" being all about you, done, finished! I spent mother’s day taking care of a sick husband and child, tired, worried as I am every time my child gets sick, my own mother feeling sad that she wasn’t getting time for mother’s day, and for a gift, I got the world’s hardest “to cook” cooking book. Ok, just the cook book alone was saying to me “this is your place as a mother, to cook and do for all, get to work”, but it also didn't help that the recipes in this book would take well over an hour just to prepare. The recipes contained ingredients that would have you driving around for hours searching through speciality stores. How exhausting, and hey, I’m a full time mom, I don’t have time to be cooking up such meals. I feel triumphant when I cook an easy quick meal every other day for my family. Big on leftovers!
You can probably tell, from my post, that I was feeling pretty sorry for myself for my first mother’s day. My red carpet, as imagined, never got rolled out. Funny that as I was in the middle of writing this post, I had to take a break, from writing, to go to my monthly “mom” bible study, and some “words of wisdom” spoken there were, “When you start thinking poor me remember….Self Pity is the sin of pride.”
After my initial shock of disappointment from my own high expectations for Mother’s Day, I took the day to hold, read to and enjoy time with my son. In the end, I ended up crying over my son, thanking God for his blessing and opportunity to be a mother. As I was crying and holding my son, I looked down and realized I was holding my mother’s day gift, and my son was the best gift for mother’s day. I also had a loving and supportive husband, family and friends so for mother’s day I had much to be thankful for.
Picture Credit: Vlado
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Easy craft idea for Mother's Day |
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Tuesday, May 8, 2012 |
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 With the help of supervision, depending on age, lay out containers full of different beads and or buttons. Use pipe cleaners and let the child mix and match the beads and buttons on the pipe cleaner to create a bracelet perfect for mother’s day. They might even want to create one for themselves! My son does! This adorable little bracelet is fun for all children to create.
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Family
The Skuut bike is a favorite of us wisemommies. 
