It’s Mother’s Day; the day of tulips and brunch and hand-drawn pictures for all of the mothers in our life.
Two or three years ago, I would have encountered this holiday with much trepidation. For the last number of years, my relationship with my mother has been tumultuous at best and during the last year or two, it’s been nothing short of non-existent. Much to my surprise though, this year, I was okay. This year, I was able to look back on my mother with the same fondness I did as a little girl and remember what it was like to be her daughter again.
While the last decade hasn’t been easy between the two of us, it wasn’t always like that. There once was a time when we shared a very unique and special relationship that only comes from a single parent raising an only daughter. We were a team. We were in it all together. Before things started to fall apart between us, there was no place in the world that was safer than being with my mother.
When I think of my mother’s very best qualities as a parent, they are numerous and plenty but, my favourite quality of hers was her unwavering support and belief that I could do anything. I could have walked up to my mother and said “I want to fly to the moon” and she would have said “well, you’re going to need better shoes than that”!!!! And that was how she was about everything. She believed…and she believed with every fiber of her being that I would change the world one day. This enabled me to grow up as someone with very big dreams and more importantly, someone who loved to dream.
Having a mother who unconditionally supports you and believes in you is one of the greatest gifts that I could have ever received as a child because things weren’t always easy for my mother and I. We endured financial challenges and social challenges and health challenges but, we seldom ever saw our world as limited by our present circumstances. Life may have been difficult at the time, but there was so much more to do and so many more dreams to live out.
Mother’s Day isn’t just about taking Mom out for brunch and thanking her for all that she “does”…but it’s about looking at the person that you have become and acknowledging that your life, right now, was likely her dream. The person that you have come to be and the qualities that you share with the world are a product of someone loving you and believing in you and wanting you to see the world differently than they may have seen it.
And so, we raise a glass to our mothers for a job well done.
Happy Mother’s day Mom…wherever you may be…
Two or three years ago, I would have encountered this holiday with much trepidation. For the last number of years, my relationship with my mother has been tumultuous at best and during the last year or two, it’s been nothing short of non-existent. Much to my surprise though, this year, I was okay. This year, I was able to look back on my mother with the same fondness I did as a little girl and remember what it was like to be her daughter again.
While the last decade hasn’t been easy between the two of us, it wasn’t always like that. There once was a time when we shared a very unique and special relationship that only comes from a single parent raising an only daughter. We were a team. We were in it all together. Before things started to fall apart between us, there was no place in the world that was safer than being with my mother.
When I think of my mother’s very best qualities as a parent, they are numerous and plenty but, my favourite quality of hers was her unwavering support and belief that I could do anything. I could have walked up to my mother and said “I want to fly to the moon” and she would have said “well, you’re going to need better shoes than that”!!!! And that was how she was about everything. She believed…and she believed with every fiber of her being that I would change the world one day. This enabled me to grow up as someone with very big dreams and more importantly, someone who loved to dream.
Having a mother who unconditionally supports you and believes in you is one of the greatest gifts that I could have ever received as a child because things weren’t always easy for my mother and I. We endured financial challenges and social challenges and health challenges but, we seldom ever saw our world as limited by our present circumstances. Life may have been difficult at the time, but there was so much more to do and so many more dreams to live out.
Mother’s Day isn’t just about taking Mom out for brunch and thanking her for all that she “does”…but it’s about looking at the person that you have become and acknowledging that your life, right now, was likely her dream. The person that you have come to be and the qualities that you share with the world are a product of someone loving you and believing in you and wanting you to see the world differently than they may have seen it.
And so, we raise a glass to our mothers for a job well done.
Happy Mother’s day Mom…wherever you may be…
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