Sometimes I wonder if I'm a good mom...am I doing everything I need to be doing for her...is she learning what she's supposed to be learning...is she getting all of her needs met...
I guess it's pretty normal for mom's (new and old) to ask these types of questions...in my short experience as a mom, I realize that no matter how safe you make your environment...somehow, your children will manage to find the "weak" spots...no matter what they are doing or where they are, you will always worry about them and their safety. I know this to be true for mothers that have grown kids as well..their worries never decreased...if anything, their worries grew because their kids grew up, got married and gave them someone else to worry about and then once a mother becomes a grandmother, well, that's even more little people to worry about...how we, as women, can manage to handle all that worry is a miracle in and of itself...let's be thankful that we at least know that we can hand off all of our worries to God and let him handle them...but I digress...sometimes that happens...my train of thought jumps tracks and starts heading in a different direction...anyway...here is the point I was trying to get to in the first place...
I ask myself those questions all the time, but then I think back to my childhood, and I cannot recall a single moment where I didn't love my mom and dad with my whole heart...I always thought I had the best parents in the world...truth be told, I still think I have the best parents in the world, as I'm sure lots of other people think that of their parents (or at least the ones lucky enough to have had a happy childhood). I can honestly say that if I had the power to duplicate the happy childhood I had growing up and let my own kids experience it, I would...but I know that my kids will have a good childhood because I had a good childhood. I know that I am a good mom because my mom was a GREAT mom, and her mom (my grandmother) was a FANTASTIC mom...so no matter how much I might worry...I believe that as long as I follow my heart and love my kids the way I have been loved, all the rest will simply fall into place.
The above pics are of my parents and me when we were all a bit younger and still had so much to learn...but I think you can see that the LOVE has always been there...
...daddy's little cutie...
...mommy's little angel...
...modeling the new hat mommy made...
...having some fun at the JMU game...
...GO DUKE DOGS...
...they had THE BEST time together...
...what a cute cousin...
...the happy mommy and daddy...
