Comments on: For the Week of May 13, 2012: Mothers, Mothering, Motherhood http://writingthroughcancer.com/2012/05/12/for-the-week-of-may-13-2012-mothers-mothering-motherhood/ When life hurts, writing can help. Weekly writing prompts for those living with debilitating illness, pain or trauma. Wed, 22 May 2013 19:08:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Sharon Bray http://writingthroughcancer.com/2012/05/12/for-the-week-of-may-13-2012-mothers-mothering-motherhood/#comment-1563 Sun, 20 May 2012 17:31:23 +0000 http://writingthroughcancer.com/?p=1008#comment-1563 Thanks for your comments, Angela!

]]> By: Angela http://writingthroughcancer.com/2012/05/12/for-the-week-of-may-13-2012-mothers-mothering-motherhood/#comment-1475 Sun, 13 May 2012 18:54:46 +0000 http://writingthroughcancer.com/?p=1008#comment-1475 Hi Sharon,
What a truly lovely post!!! I read it after coming back from going “out” to the local coffee shop with my husband for a latte and muffin. My son, who is now 18, is studying for AP exams, so there isn’t a bigger plan for going out. While we were at the coffee shop, a young couple came in with one of today’s huge strollers, the stroller equivalent of an SUV, I say, and I remembered pushing our minimal stroller home from our son’s daycare, uphill most of the way. Even though I was already 40 at the time, I can remember those days as such happy ones and how young and alive I felt. I was also thinking about how I used to sing to him and how much he liked that singing. It is one of life’s great blessings to get to be a mother.

Thanks for the writing prompts. I also agree that for those of us who have children, it can be an opportunity to be more thankful for our mothers than we might have been. I don’t know how women who chose not to have children come to the understanding of how completely absorbing it is to be in charge of a newborn.

Thanks again for your post.

Angela

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