Happy Mother’s Day

Posted on May 10, 2015

Once you are a Mom, you are always a Mom. It doesn’t go away, no matter when your children become adults, leave home, move across the country (or the world), marry, or have children of their own. Motherhood is a badge you carry the rest of your life. While we celebrate all Mothers on Mother’s Day, we know that one day can’t possibly begin to encompass all that having a mother… and being a mother… truly means.

“If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do well matters very much.” – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Grown doesn’t mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What’s that suppose to mean? In my heart it don’t mean a thing. – Toni Morrison

A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled. – Emily Dickinson

I just want my kids to love who they are, have happy lives and find something they want to do and make peace with that. Your job as a parent is to give your kids not only the instincts and talents to survive, but help them enjoy their lives.  – Susan Sarandon

Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. – Elizabeth Stone

Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had, and dealing with fears you didn’t know existed. – Linda Wooten

There will be so many times you feel like you’ve failed, but in the eyes, heart and mind of your child you are super mom. – Stephanie Precourt

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there. – Robert Browning

To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow. – Maya Angelou

We get no awards for parenthood, even when we do it well. It’s not something we get paid for. It is a voluntary position, and volunteering for a lifetime of anything deserves a standing ovation. But to volunteer for a lifetime of responsibility for raising another human being… Now that is worth honoring again and again and again. – Roma Khetarpal