Mother's Day

Well today is Mother's Day. B has been quite excited about it this year and all week has been asking "is it Mother's Day yet?"

So to make the day extra special I asked him if he would like to cook us breakfast today. I thought French Toast would be an achievable meal for him to mainly cook on his own. He loves spending time with me in the kitchen and is a really good help but today I was the helper and he pretty much cooked it himself. It gave him a real sense of achievement and pride that he was able to do this for me. I had considered going out to breakfast but I am so glad we didn't. This was much cheaper and the learning and his sense of accomplishment was definitely worth it.

Dipping the bread

Flipping the toast

Topping it all off with berries and icing sugar

In church this morning our minister talked about the Julia Ward Howe's Mother's Day Proclamation of 1870 which was a proclamation for peace and that women should rise up for peace. I really like this idea rather than the commercial thing it has become now.

Arise, then, women of this day! Arise, all women who have hearts, whether your baptism be that of water or tears!

Say firmly: "We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies. Our husbands shall not come to us, reeking with carnage, for caresses and applause. Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have taught them of charity, mercy and patience. We women of one country will be too tender of those of another to allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs."

From the bosom of the devastated earth, a voice goes up with our own. It says, "Disarm, Disarm!"

The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession. As men have often forsaken the plow and the anvil at the summons of war, let women now leave all that may be left of home for a great and earnest day of counsel. Let them meet first, as women, to bewail & commemorate the dead. Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means whereby the great human family can live in peace, each bearing after his own time the sacred impress, not of Caesars but of God.

In the name of womanhood and of humanity, I earnestly ask that a general congress of women without limit of nationality may be appointed and held at some place deemed most convenient and at the earliest period consistent with its objects, to promote the alliance of the different nationalities, the amicable settlement of international questions, the great and general interests of peace.

There has been a huge amount of controversy going around at the moment about the Time Magazine article "Are You Mom Enough?" We are all mum/mom enough. We do our best to nurture, teach, care and love for our children and if they know that then THAT IS ENOUGH! A friend of mine wrote a really great blog about this (click here).

This photo is all the things I have received for Mother's Day. A lovely friend sent me a card of support after my last post which was really lovely. I have other friends who have given me flowers and a card every Mother's Day from B which is very much appreciated. Then B made a card for me at kinder complete with a box of chocolates and a couple of lavender sachets.

In the card B made for me at kinder they got him to say his own message which was: "I love my mum because she has a key card KIA car and she always plays with me." This was a really lovely message as being a single parent I sometimes feel like I do not play with him as much as I should as I am the only one to do all the jobs needed around the house. It's nice to know that he still thinks I ALWAYS play with him. Although I'm a bit over playing with toy cars I just keep thinking that one day he won't think playing with Mum is cool.

So, Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers out there. And to those of you in my life that have not been blessed with motherhood thank you for the mothering roles that you play in B's life and the lives of the other children in your lives. It really does take a village to raise a child and I certainly appreciate the help and support I receive on this mothering journey. It is with that help and support that I can proudly say I AM ENOUGH!