I love being a Mom.
How could a mother be so blessed to be given the opportunity to have such great kids.
Having children can be a difficult, exhausting job, but it is also the most noble and grand adventure that a woman can ask for.
I chose to have five children.
I have been blessed over and over again with the birth and life of each child.
What I have done for them is nothing compared to what they have given me.
I always felt it was important to give my kids a feeling of security and warmth as they moved forward in their lives.
I had that growing up and I wanted them to have that same sort of childhood.
My thoughts wander to summer time.
(The best time to make memories)
We spent many longs days at the racquet club. Oh, those lazy fun days when we'd pack up a lunch and a few snacks and be gone for hours.
Swimming, getting their little bodies warm by laying on the hot cement, that creamy frozen yogart.
Packing up to go home just in time for little league or a game of kick the can.
I've never done anything that noteworthy, I've never been in the limelight.
But I have rocked and sung to my children.
I have taken them swimming, played with them and watched them grow in to adulthood,
cheered and encouraged them.
I have loved them.
I have been a mom.
I would rather sing and tell stories to my kids and grandkids than to any audience in the world.
When I feel my little grandson's arms wrap around my neck,
when they cuddle in my lap and entertwine their little fingers in mine and say "hold me grama polly", I think my decision all those years ago.
That of being a mother.
It may have been the hardest, most exhausting, most heartbreaking, ..most rewarding experience.
I chose wisely.
