The hard task of being a mother......

Have you ever thought that there is no harder thing in this life than to be a mother? Being a mother is one of the greatest gifts that God gave us as women. As we grow up we always dream of getting married have kids and create a beautiful family. We leave our parents to become parents ourselves and with pride we celebrate what we believe is one of our biggest accomplishments as a human being - having a baby.

Though we women have to go through the hassle of the nine months pregnancy (morning sickness, nausea, headaches, dizziness and even throwing up everything you eat) and see our bodies getting all discombobulated with stretch marks, cellulite and the overweight, we still enjoy to see our bellies growing and can't wait to have that little person who is part of us, soon in our arms.

The day we go into labor no matter how many hours you spend with those horrible contractions, how long we suffer pushing and not caring how many people sees you almost naked, looking at your vagina, you are still patiently waiting to receive that baby with all the love of your heart.
Once it's here; as loving and caring mothers, we give up our hours of sleep, our leisure and pleasures, we hardly have time for ourselves all to do the best as a mother.

We celebrate their first tooth, their first word and their first step. We spend years watching and taking care of them. We feed them, bathe them, spend long hours on a rocking chair during midnight when they cry and even long nights in a hospital when they get sick.

As they continue growing, we celebrate their achievements and suffer their disappointments with them. When they have problems, we are there for them to try to find the solutions and when somebody breaks their hearts, we offer our shoulders for them to cry one more time, as when they were babies, when we see them falling, we go to help them stand again.

We wish nothing could hurt them and try to do our best to avoid them making mistakes. However, no matter how much of a good mother we are trying to be, they never appreciate what we do for them. They consider us over protective, demanding and too strict. The typical pain in the ass who anybody would like to get rid off. They don't care that we are worried when they go out and it's four in the morning and we don't know where and how they are. They sometimes disrespect you, curse you out, they don't care to see you crying and don't respect our sufferings as mothers. If we are too strict, they hate us and if we spoil them, we are not doing them any favor.

We try to be the best mother in the world, still to their eyes we are the wicked witch because we don't allow them to live their lives the way they want. At times they make us doubt if we are a good mother or not, if what we do as mothers is right and we just don't know anymore if we should make them understand their mistakes or let them learn from them.

The truth is, kids don't come with an instruction booklet under their arms and we mothers are learning at the same time with them as life put us through all this. What they should never forget is that as we were kids one day and now we are mothers the same way they will be parents one day.

Unfortunately, it's not going to be until then when they would finally realize the sufferings and tribulations that comes with parenthood.