Mother's Day

I want to start by saying my Mother's Day weekend was fantastic. I got my son to sleepcon his own and he regularly sleeps 5 or more hours at a time! We are working on getting him to sleep later than 4 or 5 am but it is such a relief that I can put him in his crib in his room awake and within 20 to 30 minutes he will be asleep.

Now on to the bittersweet reality of blogging and reading the stories of others. Yesterday and today I found and read a blog called Ben Sauer at blogspot. It chronicles the last days of a little boy's life as a brain tumor slowly speards. I won't go into too much detail as I feel anyone interested should read the original blog. It is very beautifully and simply written.

I started to cry as I read it. You can find it here:
http://bensauer.blogspot.ca/p/how-you-can-help.html

It's a reminder to me that nothing is for sure and that it's important to spend our time wisely. My house may not be spotless (or anywhere close to it), but it's important to me to spend time outside with my son, or in the bathtub with him. My priorities are family and my son's happiness so the dishes and sticky floors can be dealt with later.

I pray every night that my son will have a long fulfilling life but I know there's no guarantee. So I try to spend the time I have making him laugh, teaching him new words (in sign language because my husband is way better at teaching verbal language). I'm looking forward to teaching him right from wrong, howcto treat a woman, and what's really important in life.

So I want to say that I love being a mom and know that this is definitely what I was meant to do. To all the moms out there, you rock and I hope you know it!