{"id":1733,"date":"2009-05-05T10:00:18","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T15:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/?p=1733"},"modified":"2009-05-04T21:53:37","modified_gmt":"2009-05-05T02:53:37","slug":"sherri-transition-to-motherhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/sherri-transition-to-motherhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Sherri’s transition to motherhood"},"content":{"rendered":"

I hope you are enjoying all these stories about real women becoming moms. This is my way of celebrating Mother’s Day all week.<\/p>\n

If you haven’t yet, please post your own story on your blog and link up to the original post.<\/a> Or shoot me an email with your story and I’ll make a post from it and link. (And you’ll still have a chance to win the relaxing mom giveaway.)<\/p>\n

My neighbor sent this one to me. When she told me on the phone that becoming a mother was the most natural thing for her I asked her to type up her thoughts because her experience was so filled with joy. So here is Sherri’s story…<\/p>\n

Trying to think back 9 and 12 years to the births of my children can be a little difficult.\u00a0 Although it sometimes does seem like it was just yesterday, it really wasn\u2019t. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

For me, my first pregnancy, childbirth and year after were just wonderful. \u00a0I loved being pregnant! <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

When my daughter was born everything seemed to be right in the world. \u00a0I do very clearly remember thinking that this was it – I was just meant to be a mom \u2013 I felt that I\u2019d fulfilled my purpose in life. \u00a0Ok, just started to fulfill, because to me being a mom means being a stay-at-home mom until they are off to college (then I don\u2019t know what I\u2019ll do with myself). <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2 years and 9 months after having my daughter, I had my son. \u00a0Other than a not-as-pleasant pregnancy and worrying that since I had one perfect child I wouldn\u2019t get another one as wonderful, everything was just as great the second time. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

He was born and I was so elated to get to do the baby thing all over again. \u00a0I loved breastfeeding, even when it meant getting up in the middle of the night. \u00a0No bottles here \u2013 I selfishly wanted to do it all myself. \u00a0I knew I had to cherish each moment because it would be gone before I knew it. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

That definitely happened. \u00a0I can\u2019t believe my kids are getting so big! \u00a0However, I have no regrets thus far \u2013 I have enjoyed them as much as I possibly could and I still think that being a mom is the reason God put me on Earth. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

One final thing… I don\u2019t by any means think I\u2019m the best mom or a near-perfect mom. \u00a0I think I\u2019m a good mom and feel very good about my life and the lives of the others in my family.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

PS. Sherri is an awesome mom with two fantastic kids that I, my husband and my children adore. We are blessed to be friends with her and her family.<\/strong><\/em>
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I hope you are enjoying all these stories about real women becoming moms. This is my way of celebrating Mother’s Day all week. If you haven’t yet, please post your own story on your blog and link up to the original post. Or shoot me an email with your story and I’ll make a post […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1733"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1740,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733\/revisions\/1740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}