I am so proud to be writing for Parent Bloggers Network, a group of talented bloggers who all write product review blogs. Today, we are having a Blog Blast, which is like a blog carnival, except, as they explained in the email, “without the scary clowns”. Ha! We are taking today to write about What makes us a Mother.

These posts are all inspired by Kevin, Dad and Founder of Light Iris. To help him understand what his wife went through while pregnant, he has been wearing a pregnancy suit since April 13th, and he’s keeping it on until Mother’s Day! You should really click over to his blog and read his posts, I promise you have never seen ANYTHING like it.

So, I have three children, but that is not what makes me a Mother. As difficult as the labor, pregnancy and delivery can be, that isn’t the hardest part. The hardest part comes afterwards, when the nurse hands you the tiniest little human you have ever seen, and they become your responsibility for the rest of your life. I am a Mother because I have accepted that responsibility.

When I had my first son, it took me a long time to get used to saying “I have a son”. It just didn’t sound right, it wasn’t part of my identity yet. It was even weird to call and make appointments with the pediatrician, because I had to say I needed an appointment for my son. It was like I was talking about someone else.

It got a little less weird when I had Nathan, and now that I have Kaitlyn, calling myself their Mother is second nature. I am a Mother because I am going to do everything in my power to teach, protect, nurture and prepare my children as they grow up. I will teach them to walk, talk, feed themselves, use the toilet, dress themselves, bathe themselves, and hundreds of other little things that will get them to adulthood. But even when they are adults, I will always be their Mother. I will never stop caring, stop worrying, stop loving them, ever. How could I? I am their Mother.

Would you like to post on this topic, too? Post on Friday, May 11 (that’s today), link to Light Iris, and e-mail parentbloggers at gmail dot com.

Parentbloggers will be picking a winner from ALL the posts that are dated May 11, rounding them up on their site, and picking a random winner to get a $100 gift certificate to SPA FINDER to be announced on Mother’s Day.

This post has been brought to you by Light Iris and Parent Bloggers Network.

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