While every Day is Mother's Day, I am thankful that I can be honored as a mom on this day!  This is an excerpt from one of my journals:

I have such gratitude for all that I have in life, especially my 3 children.  I have learned so much from them and I am only the person that I am today because of them.

Michael has taught me the strength of my own conviction.  One that comes from within.  Faith in the unknown.  Faith in the people who have surrounded him in his life.  Faith in the path that he chooses.  Faith that his life is wonderful and that perhaps my gift to him continues.  This is my first real experience in long distance love.  Love connects in all ways.  I have experienced this love of a child and love of a God who keeps us together while we are apart.  Love for a mother who is my friend.  Who has loved him in all moments seen while I have loved him in all moments unseen.  Hope that I have been a good mother and that I will grow as a mother.  Hope, Faith and Love, the Greatest Gift being Love.

Charlotte accepted a high strung, protective woman as her mom, knowing that in time, she would "come around".  Love softened me as she kept telling me to play.  Laughter and happiness surrounded her as the world around her caught up to her idea of life.  She has guided my life in many ways: opening a home daycare, teaching in a school, and then leaving that job to pursue my Self.  She has always known what I needed.  She has always known what she needed.  Once I heard the two, life settled and the rapids, calmed.  She is unique and wonderful and reminds me that unique is power.  It is truth because it is one's own.  She is high energy, pensive, clever and creative.  She challenges me to hold a light to her passion so that she can find it and ride it for the rest of her life.  "Oh.. to be free"' I often hear with words unspoken and eyes wide.  

Max entered our world while we were celebrating with family at a Wiccan wedding celebration.  Fitting for this intuitive, magical, charismatic child!  While Charlotte moved me through my extrinsic world, Max moved my intrinsic.  He demanded a mom who is whole.  A mom who could not only hold his energy but move what got in his way.  I could only do that through healing, and loving my Self.  A spark was exchanged that has illuminated my light within.  This light has brightened us as a family and guides my path. With space to grow, we draw strength from individuality and comfort from closeness.  Laughter continues with Max...  as he seems to understand the secrets to what we are and who we will become.  He sees and knows that Joy is the Answer.

I have been blessed to have been loved and to love.  I truly am the most fortunate of all..  and every day is Mother's Day.