Mother’s Day

#MaternityMondays Week 11 – A Mother’s Day Special

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Welcome to Week 11 of #MaternityMondays and a special souped up Mother’s Day edition. With this linky being largely about motherhood we could not let the day celebrating and appreciating Mums pass us by without a bit of a mention. So here it is and this week #MaternityMondays is open longer than usual, from 6.30am Sunday to Midnight on Wednesday.

Feel free to link up any normal #MaternityMonday posts but we would also love to read any Mother’s Day posts too. Be it a celebration of your Mum or Wife (or any special Mum you know), any Mother’s Day crafts or sharing what you got up to on the day, we want to hear about it!

Thanks to all our lovely linkers from last week and thank you all for your support, we love our little community and it is amazing to see all the bump updates every week! You are all really progressing now with lots of lovely babas on their way very soon.

Speaking of which, we had a surprise arrival from Another Bun and the first part of her birth story so reminded me of LM’s early arrival! Huge congratulations to you and your little family and looking forward to reading part 2 about your natural C-Section!

I also loved reading Mama Mim‘s post about things she wish she had done before having children – no matter how much you want kids or how prepared you think you are, the little loves always turn our world upside down and I think many of us could relate to these!

I also really Seeking Adventure‘s roundup of her favourite pregnancy and baby books – there are so many out there and I always think it helps to hear whether they have actually helped someone!

This week, in honour of Mother’s Day I am linking up a little homage to my lovely Mum, including some amusing photos of us from over the years 🙂

Now it is over to you! Please grab our badge and share the linky love by commenting on a few other blog posts, it would be lovely if we could grow a little community to share the highs and lows of motherhood and parenting.

The linky is open Mondays only from 6.30am to midnight.

Don’t forget to tweet your link using #MaternityMondays, and if you tag us in we will retweet, we are @EmmaLander2 and @BecomingaSAHM

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My Lovely Mum

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With Mother’s Day approaching I have been feeling a little soppy and nostalgic. Motherhood is hard and I have to admit this past month with all of the illness in our house I have found it especially hard. Don’t you find that being a Mum yourself really makes you appreciate your own Mum all the more? It certainly makes me appreciate my Mum.

It’s been particularly tough with both kids having Chicken Pox lately and it must have been much harder for my Mum as she had Chicken Pox at the same time as my brother and I. I have known this for years but never really appreciated how tough it must have been before. It is hard enough dealing with two kids when you are well, let alone when you are suffering too.

We have always been close, even with the stomping and door slamming of my teenage years, and though we didn’t always get on so well living together when I came home from Uni (not an easy transition), as long as we aren’t living in the same house and both have our own space we get on really well. We have been through some tough times, with the death of my Dad and her fight with Breast Cancer a year later. But we’ve also had some amazing times including a week in New York on the start of my world travels and her wedding to my ovely Step-Dad (Pops). She set me up on the blind date with my lovely Hubs and is a wonderful Nanny to my kiddies. She helps us out so much with the kids, mostly because I know she just loves being their Nanny!

I’m not very good at sentimental writing, and I certainly can’t write a poem but here is a little photo tribute to my lovely Mum on Mother’s Day, I could not appreciate and love her more. (I could have used some very dodgy shots of us both from over the years but chose to be kind to both of us – note the jump from toddler photos straight to adult ones lol!)

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Thanks for being fab Mum 🙂

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