I am looking back over a year of being a mom. It has not always been easy. There has been times when your endurance and patience were tested to its limits. Being a mom is all about not only giving, but also giving up. You are faced with challenges every day. It takes careful planning to keep the wheels of a household oily and running smoothly.
But the impact of becoming a mom reaches far beyond the hard work, the planning and the sacrifices. The decision to have a child was a carefully thought through and calculated decision. We chose to have him, not the other way around.
The decision was a single step, but that single choice have had impact in so many areas of our lives. The things we do today, the plans we make all would have been so different were Andreas not part of our lives.
I said to my husband the other day – I have not given any other human being so many hugs and kisses than this little boy and that in the span of only one year. Children have the miraculous ability to touch people’s lives through simple acts. They don’t have hidden agendas, they do not pretend. To them all people are equally important.
And that to me has been the main impact of our choice to have a little one, you have the privilege to become the recipient of all that little one has to give. I am relieved to say as the days go by it becomes gradually more than only dirty nappies and desperate cries. They give laughter, joy, their innocent honesty.
After a year of being a mother I am enriched. This little one has given us so much, so much more than we could have ever hoped for. He has learned me so much about myself, and the person I want to be for him. I won’t exchange the mommy title for anything in the world.
