Ravsten Family: It's true...

Sunday, May 12, 2013

It's true...

It's true that I really do miss my mom around days like today, Mother's Day! However, it has been a rather great day. Much better than my memories of last year. Although, I'm struggling feeling like an adequate mother as my kids fight and yell and don't clean up after themselves. I realize that I AM a mother and that is one of the greatest gifts I've ever been given. I found a wonderful man to marry me and to help me become THE mother of three beautiful biological children and one foster child. What a treasure. Motherhood is difficult every day, but by the end of the day, as I lay in my bed trying to go to sleep, I realize how blessed I am and I thank my Heavenly Father for the wonderful gifts he's entrusted me to raise.

I'm also, obviously, grateful for the amazing and powerful woman that I got to call mother! What a fan I am of Mary Ann Anderson and how my heart breaks every time I truly stop to think about the fact that she's not in her chair in Sunset waiting for me to call her and report on the kids. I realize that she is the one that would give me the strength and trick me into believing that I was truly great! She is the one that would help me be more optimistic about life and all that it offers. I miss having her as my cheerleader in my life. Although many try, and to them I am truly grateful, it's just not the same as one's mother! The one who could tell me that I'm practically perfect and so are my children and that yes, those pants do make your butt look big!!!

*sigh...

Anyway, back to being positive and optimistic, cuz that's how my mom would be, I'm truly blessed. After all I got beautiful flowers, new flip flops, a make up brush and homemade cinnamon rolls with a diet dr. pepper in bed this morning. I got numerous cards and hugs and kisses and kind words throughout the day. I couldn't be any luckier than to have Kedzie, Ethan, Alex and Mr. T in my life. Especially because they call me "mama." Truly blessed.