Happy Mother's Day!

Being a mother has been the most overwhelming experience of my life.  The worry, the guilt, the joy, the love.  It’s all overwhelming.  Some days I am so exhausted that I wonder when it’s going to get easier.  Some days I am so happy I feel like my heart is going to explode.


My beautiful kids....

Matias Onni

Sofia Isabelle

Olivia Addison

My kids have given me the best and worst moments of my life so far. 

Matias’s birth was a horrible experience, but seeing his face for the first time was the happiest moment of my life.

The girls' first days were probably the worst of my life...

but all of their ‘firsts’ afterwards were unbelievably wonderful- like holding them together for the first time when they were 6 weeks old.

Good days and bad, motherhood is a true blessing.  I am by far happier than I have ever been in my life.  I never get to do anything alone, but I never have to be alone.  What a nice feeling.  My kids are my friends, my little buddies.  They make me laugh, they make me cry, and they make me feel like I have such a purpose in life.  I am important.  They need me and I need them.  I have a family, and that’s all I ever really wanted.  

When I see all of my Mother's Day pictures lined up from the past 4 years, I realize yet again how quickly time is going.  My babies are all kids now.  What a difference a few years makes!

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Happy Mother’s Day to all of you wonderful mothers out there.   Whether you have children in your arms, in the hospital, or in heaven...you deserve Mother's Day every day!