Cool Mom Blogs

I figure that if I am going to start sharing cool mom blogs, I ought to fess up about my own family blog. www.oneluckymama.com is the blog I started when I was pregnant with my daughter, Eva. The name of the blog was obvious – after many, many years of wondering if I would ever be able to beat PCOS (polycystic ovary syndrome) and actually have a baby – I was finally going to be a mom. I really did feel lucky, blessed beyond belief, to just finally be able to have a baby of my own.

So, my not-so-often updated blog was launched. My goal is to share my own experiences as a mom – but also to remind all moms that they are unbelievably lucky just to be a mom. No matter what else is, or is not, what you want right now – you have a child. Being a mom is even more amazing and difficult than I ever imagined. I marvel over my daughter’s seemingly mundane achievements from rolling over to learning to dress herself. These are such small things in the scheme of things, but they are also the most amazing things. What a miracle she is. What a miracle that she can do so many things even at the tender age of not-quite 19 months. What seems so ordinary and every day is actually pretty wonderful.

No, it is not all sunshine and roses. Being a working mom, even working from home as I do, is exhausting. Staying up all night with a sick baby, then wondering how to drag enough of my brain into the day to get everything else done is not easy. There are days when I have already had quite enough of her “almost-2-going-on-13″ attitude. Before I had a kid of my own, I had taken care of enough kids to get more than used to the ick factor. Leaking diapers, being thrown up on, runny nose, no big deal. I was not prepared for my 2 month old pulling my hair so many times my scalp hurt – or being repeatedly bitten by a teething baby declaring her independence from nursing.

Nor was I prepared to find out that my own mother is terminally ill – when my long-awaited daughter was just 3 months old. The sheer weight of the responsibility of raising my sweet, independent, and funny little girl is overwhelming some days.  Many things are not what I planned and I am not sure of my ability to give this little girl all that she deserves in this world. I’m not always sure how to be the mom she needs and I wonder sometimes if I am making the right decisions for her.  Through it all, every time I look in her eyes, I am reminded that I am so blessed to be her mom.

For every baby born, a lucky mom is born. So, if you are a mom, count yourself as one lucky mama.