Someone you can count on anytime anywhere.
Someone you can laugh with and someone you can cry with.
Someone who knows when you just need a cuddle or a hug. And someone who knows when to leave you alone.
Someone who will make your favorite dinner on your birthday.
Someone who will back you up when times get rough.
Someone who is not afraid to tell you as it is.
I have been a Mom now for fifteen years. And I can’t thank my Mom enough for giving me the guidance I needed to be a Mom to a child that I didn’t give birth to. A may not be my birth child, but it didn’t make it any less different for me, I still love him with all my heart. The hardest thing about being a Mom in this way was that I had to send him back home to his birth mother after only a few days together. And fifteen years later, it doesn’t get any easier.
Being a Mom to my own two children is the most amazing thing in the world. And I don’t have to send them anywhere at the end of the day, except their own beds. Perhaps this is why I have such a hard time with the idea of leaving the kids and going away, I never want to leave my kids.
I started writing this post for LouLou’s Mother’s Day Giveaway, but I simple ran out of time to finish. But, I had to finish. I had to show you why it is all so worth it. Every tear, all the sweat, all the cuddles, all the laundry. Everything, is just so worth it to get to spend time with these two.
I love being a Mom.
I am so excited about the Entrepreneurial Moms Launch coming up next week I just had to share. So far in Ottawa we have not had anything like this where we can come together to learn and share about being a Mom and an Entrepreneur. This is our chance.
Entrepreneurial Moms started in Calgary and is now growing at an alarming rate. Here is a little blurb from their site that says it better than I ever could.
Entrepreneurial Moms of Ottawa recognizes that an Entrepreneurial Mom is a multi-faceted, dynamic woman whose priorities are many and whose time is precious.We acknowledge that an entrepreneurial mom’s business success is intricately dependent upon a few fundamental aspects of her life being functional, healthy, and, ideally, thriving.We discovered on our journey of connecting and supporting Entrepreneurial Moms that the fantastic women we honour so much actually place as much value on other facets of their lives as they do on their entrepreneurial success.What makes Entrepreneurial Moms unique, it seems, is a statistically significant sentiment that while business is important it isn’t everything, and it alone does not complete us.
For the Launch next Wednesday, January 20th (7pm Lagos Bar and Grill, Dows Lake Pavillion) we will get the opportunity to hear Erin Blaskie speak about Social Media and how to use it to our advantage. I can’t wait to hear her speak as she is truly an inspiration to anyone who is considering running their own business.
In addition I missed Janet McCausland and Caroline Mehdi (Co-Directors of the Ottawa Chapter) when they were interviewed on CBC Radio on Monday with regards to the launch. I was however, able to get the sound bite, so if you missed it and would like the opportunity to hear it click here .
I look forward to meeting more Mom Entrepreneurs from Ottawa next week.
*I am not affiliated with Entrepreneurial Moms, I just love the concept and am very excited to be involved with such a wonderful group of women.
And all this H1N1 stuff just fits in with that soliloquy. Do you or don’t you get the shot. There are pros and cons to both and for the most part we were waiting. We have discussed with our Doctor and were going to wait.
Hubby is in Vancouver this week and when we were chatting on the phone last night he asked how J was doing with his fear of H1N1. I told him it was pretty much the same, he cries when the news comes on, he cried on Monday when I was feeling like I was hit by a truck, basically the boy is living in fear of dying from the flu. So when Dani sent an email out last night and told some of us that her whole family got the shot yesterday and that it was quite a painless process at Walter Baker Hubby asked me to go.
We are usually on the same page when it comes to parenting and shots and when we aren’t Hubby usually lets me decide. But, this time he asked. You know when your Husband does one of those rare things and asks you to do something that you are not sure about, it almost solidifies it in your mind. As much as I am still not 100% on board with this vaccine I now feel like the decision was taken out of my hands. Hubby works with Emergency and Pandemic preparedness in Ottawa, he worked at the Hospital when SARS happened and all through this he never thought we needed to do anything different or get any shots. We don’t even get the annual flu shot now that he is no longer at the Hospital. So when he asked me to take the kids and get our shots today, I was not going to argue. In his mind, this H1N1 thing is bigger than what we know. I am not sure if I agree yet, but if he thinks so then who am I to say?
We picked up our bracelets at 9am this morning and were told to come back at 4:15pm. Will see how the afternoon plays out, but it sure seems like who ever is running things at Walter Baker, knows exactly what they are doing and should possibly be running all of the clinics in the city.
*William Shakespeare. Hamlet, Act Three Scene One.
