YOU are the strongest person I know!!

I know I'm a day late in posting this, but I don't think it really matters what day I post this topic on because it's special all by itself. I believe that every time a woman gives birth she has earned her right to be celebrated as a mother. I don't think she becomes a mother when the baby is out, I think it happens right at conception. The ultimate sacrifice of giving of her whole self to grow a child within herself. Giving up bad habits and certain food that she enjoys so that the life that is growing inside will grow to it's full potential. I believe at that moment when she sacrifices what she wants and desire is already an act of motherhood. Something changes in her heart when a baby starts to grow, it can make the evilest of women turn into a gentle mother. Now that she's spent 9 months preparing for her baby to come, the time comes where no woman can ever really be fully prepared for. Amazingly, she finds the strength within herself to work through the pain and contractions, knowing that with every one that passes, she's closer to her prize she's worked so hard for.  Her support system is just as important in this process to her. A gentle touch, an encouraging word, affirmation...just a little of how big a part the support system can be to a mother in labor. It's a hard process to go through for a woman, probably one of the hardest in her life, but soon enough she forgets the pain when she holds her baby close. Basking in the freshness of her newborn baby, the smell, how soft he feels to the touch, even his cries touches the deepest part of her heart.  As her baby grows and reaches their milestones, that pain and suffering of labor soon becomes such a faded memory that sometimes the process of life starts all over again. Women endure a significant amount of pain giving birth, but it's such a blessing to experience it. If you've had the experience of bringing life into this world, please don't take it for granted, consider yourself blessed because for some, even though they've had the desire to, for some reason or another haven't been able to. 

So to ALL the mothers out there who've given birth and those who haven't, YOU are the strongest person I know!  

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY

 (a day late)