Before I Was A MoM!
 

Before I Was A Mom


Before I was a Mom I never tripped over toys or forgot words to a lullaby.
I didn't worry whether or not my plants were poisonous.
I never thought about immunizations.
Before I was a Mom - I had never been puked on.
Pooped on.
Chewed on.
Peed on.

I had complete control of my mind and my thoughts.
I slept all night.
Before I was a Mom I never held down a screaming child so doctors could do tests.
Or give shots.
I never looked into teary eyes and cried.
I never got gloriously happy over a simple grin.

I never sat up late hours at night watching a baby sleep.
Before I was a Mom I never held a sleeping baby just because I didn't want to put them down.
I never felt my heart break into a million pieces when I couldn't stop the hurt.
I never knew that something so small could affect my life so much.
I never knew that I could love someone so much.
I never knew I would love being a Mom.
Before I was a Mom - I didn't know the feeling of having my heart outside my body.

I didn't know how special it could feel to feed a hungry baby.
I didn't know that bond between a mother and her child.
I didn't know that something so small could make me feel so important and happy.

Before I was a Mom - I had never gotten up in the middle of the night every 10 minutes to make sure all was okay.
I had never known the warmth, the joy, the love, the heartache, the wonderment or the satisfaction of being a Mom.
I didn't know I was capable of feeling so much, before I was a Mom.


(My Daughter Jenny sent me this via e-mail this A.M.)

Thanks Kat, i read this before, but love it every time i read it, so true !!

I hadn't seen this one...thanks Kat.

I love being a Mom but I would trade almost anything for just one more day with each of my kids as babies. I would just love to cuddle and snuggle up with them just one more time! Shoot, now I have tears in my eyes.

Don't feel bad, I was sobbing when I posted it. :cry:
I have another good one, let me find it.

That is great Kat!! I still catch myself checking on them in the middle of the night and the two at home are 10 and 17.

Aww that was beautiful .:)

That is beautiful Kat and even more special because it came from your daughter. it brought tears to my eyes.

Diana, im sending you hugs girl, i know what your talking about, time just goes by so fast...:ghug::bighug::bighug:

I'd never thought of that. Shucks, now I'm crying, too. Wouldn't that be special??? And if you could go back with the knowledge you have now, how you would cherish each moment of that day!!!!

I agree Marilyn. Especially with what I am going through now there are so many things I would change with my kids.

Ok ladies help out a new mom here, if you had a chance to go back in time with your children what would you do different?

As you ladies know, i'm trying my best with my son, to spend quality time with him, i even got Dad to stay home 2 nights a week, plus Sunday afternoon, I try to play with him, tech him colors, letters, where his nose, eyes, he got the ears down, I was so excited!!

Let me know what would you change ???

Haley, I have to think about this one.
For sure, I'd have taken the words, "I'm to busy right now" out of my vocabulary.
I would have stopped whatever I was doing to listen to their little stories, instead of talking on the phone and worrying so much about how the house looked.

I think this little poem says it all:

Mother, O Mother, come shake out your cloth,

Empty the dustpan, poison the moth,

Hang out the washing, make up the bed,

Sew on a button and butter the bread.

Where is the mother whose house is so shocking?

She’s up in the nursery, blissfully rocking.

Oh, I’ve grown as shiftless as Little Boy Blue,

Lullabye, rockabye, lullabye loo.

Dishes are waiting and bills are past due

Pat-a-cake, darling, and peek, peekaboo

The shopping’s not done and there’s nothing for stew

And out in the yard there’s a hullabaloo

But I’m playing Kanga and this is my Roo

Look! Aren’t his eyes the most wonderful hue?

Lullabye, rockaby lullabye loo.

The cleaning and scrubbing can wait till tomorrow

But children grow up as I’ve learned to my sorrow.

So quiet down cobwebs; Dust go to sleep!

I’m rocking my baby and babies don’t keep.

- Ruth Hulbert Hamilton

oh Kat, that was beautiful! Those are the rules i'm trying to live by, just yesterday i was doing the dishes, Micah came flying into the kitchen and hugged my legs, i didn't get the dishes done til this morning, they sat all night, didn't care on bit, i played with Micah instead !!!

Love these things....better than a hallmark commercial!
 

Keep these coming!!:D

Don't you have a diaper to change or a kid to feed, or sompin.:sidesplit:

Love ya # 1 :hug:

My favorite job....
 

Of all my lofty dreams, goals, and aspirations, a MOM is definitely where I want to be.....It is absolutely how mind blowing it is when your "prospective" of the world changes soooo significantly by a life event......

Really anything does that....job change, death, divorce, marriage, baby, sickness, failure, whatever....gotta love life!

Philosophy major today, hmmmm :fainted:

Thing I Have Changed the Most
 

This poem says it all.....

Not that I Ever kept an immaculate house....just a lived in look, was fine for me....now really it is a kids home with parents renting... ha ha ha

Excuse This House
Some houses try to hide the fact
That children shelter there.
Ours boasts of it quite openly,
The signs are every where.

For smears are on the windows,
Little smudges on the doors;
I should apologize I guess
For toys strewn on the floor.

But I sat down with the children
And we played and laughed and read,
And if the doorbell doesn't shine,
Their eyes will shine instead.

For when at times I'm forced to
Choose the one job or the other,
I want to be a housewife...
But first I'll be a mother.


Gotta get back, the kids are done with their freetime....
Smiles to all!

It changes for the better Jenny!
I love it when Micah sees or hears or tastes something for the first time, just to see his little face, and that belly laugh its priceless !!!!

Philospohy major NO, Exhaustion and Sappy Today, YES
 

ha ha ha ha......Love it.....sipping my coffee, harassing my mom on phone and the internet.....gosh, gotta love technology.:D

Haley, I'd like to introduce you to my Dtr Jenny, Jen this is Haley she has a little guy named Micah.

Hi Haley, nice to meet you
 

Haley, I am happy to meet ya....

Smiles:)

Nicole is here now, Nikki, say HI to Jenny, my dtr the one that went to law school

Jenny, so nice to meet you to... your baby is so adorable, you need to start an album and post more pictures......

sorry Jen, you have 3 littles ones??? All adorable.... :)

Mom and daughter on here - how cute !!!! my mom has no clue on how to use a computer and she doesn't even want to try...

Haley, I have pics of her girls in my album.
This is her oldest Olivia when she was Micah's age.
Attachment 2924

She's the one on the balance beam in my album. :D

Aww, that was just beautiful! Thanks for sharing Kat.

Kat, beautiful girls, your a lucky grandma !!!
How did she get her pictures on the Huggies diapers? That is cute...

She auditioned for it 6 years ago, and they chose her for the size 5 Huggies package, she's in all the that size Huggies still to this day.

My boy was only in size 5 for a month or two, he's a size 6 diapers now :eek: i'm going grocery shopping late tonight, i'll check it out....

Good for her! She must love that.

Being a Mom is the hardest and most wonderful job you'll have. My daughter has always been the pleasure in my life. My grandchildren
are my blessings - each one, a gift from God.

Awww Judy, you worded that perfectly!!!