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I just spent this past weekend with my family in Chicago. My mom and I spent ALL of Saturday together and it was so nice! I love my mom. She was also my first teacher and she has given me such great advice throughout the years. Some of it I have heard all of my life and some she just decided to share with me. Here is the list worth passing on: [Read more...]
Disclosure: The following post is compensated and in collaboration with Latina Bloggers Connect and JOHNSON’S Baby. All opinions and statements are my own.
Mother’s Day is this weekend and I just sent my first Mother’s Day best wishes to my friend Celeste! JOHNSON’S Baby has launched an e-card digital platform to help brighten the days of deserving moms across the country. You can create your own positive messages of encouragement, while also raising funds for the global children’s humanitarian organization, Save the Children. For every Care Card sent, shared or liked, JOHNSON’S Baby will donate $1.00 to Save the Children (up to $150,000). This donation is a part of their ongoing commitment to help ensure that every baby has a healthy and happy start.
What a great way to do raise money AND brighten up someone’s day! Yesterday though, I missed an opportunity to help a fellow mom get through a tough day. [Read more...]
In the last couple of days Diego has been trying to sing a song for me. He’s been whispering a little song under his breath and every time I would ask him about it he would become shy and run away. This morning he told me in the kitchen, in English so my mother wouldn’t understand, that he had a Mother’s Day song he wanted to sing to me in private. I told him I couldn’t wait to hear it and understood he wanted to sing it to me alone so I suggested he sing it to me in the car.
Once we pulled out of the garage he started with, “Her eyes, her eyes make the stars seem like they’re not shining.” Wow I was impressed! We don’t listen to a lot of pop music in the car or house so I thought it was interesting that he was singing to Bruno Mars. As he continued to sing more of Just The Way You Are by the time he belted, “you’re so amazing…” I was holding back tears! He said, “Mrs. Stroman said you would have tears of joy. I’m going to sing the whole song to you on Mother’s Day”. He already made me feel beautiful and special. Thank you Mrs. Stroman!
Other great songs for Mother’s Day? Play it for your momma or for yourself! I thought about these on my way back from taking Diego to school…
Tupac’s “Dear Mama” My favorite line? And even though I act craaazy/I gotta thank the Lord that you made me.
Beyonce’s “Run the World (Girls)” How we’re smart enough to make these millions/strong enough to bare the children.
Boys II Men “Song for Mama” Mama…Mama you know I love you… Remember that song? Love it!
Whitney Houston’s “Greatest Love of All” I found the greatest love of all inside of me/the greatest love of all/is easy to achieve/learning to love yourself/it is the greatest love of all.
Because seriously, as mothers, if we can’t be happy and love ourselves…we are not that great to anyone else.
En Español
Topo Gigio “Esa es mi mamita linda” jajaja soooo cute!!!
Timbiriche’s “Mamá” Que alegria da decir mama/Sintiendo en las palabras emocion/Puedo presumir de mi gran amor/Tu eres lo mas bello que jamas me sucedio. Tear!
Marco Antonio Solis “Te Amo Mamá” THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SONG IN SPANISH FOR MOMS! Crying just listening to it… Jose and his mom danced to this song on our wedding day.
Los Tigres del Norte “Mañanitas a Mi Madre” Si estas dormidita escucha este canto/que todos tus hijo convierten en llanto/tu que por tus hijos vives implorando/en ti madrecita vivimos pensando.
Something for everyone! We have less than a week to plan something special for our madrecitas! I can’t wait to hear more from Diego’s little voice. That for me is enough. Have a great week!
Your friend,
Betty
It’s time!!! It’s time to welcome mi mami and Baby Boy #3 is holding on for my mother’s arrival! Tita Che is scheduled to arrive in less than two days, Jose is working from home (just in case) and I am just so excited! She’s bringing tortillas!! jajaja
I know how lucky I am that my mother is only less than two hours away from me by plane but she has been 14 hours away when we lived in Tokyo and 22 hours away when we lived in Singapore. My mother had never traveled alone until I became a mother and she said she put all her fears aside for me because she knew I needed her. Tear.
I don’t care that I am 33 years old and want to crawl into my mother’s lap as soon as she arrives. When you are a mother, you appreciate your own mother like no other time before.
Reasons I love her so much:
She welcomes me by making me the best Entomatadas ever! They are a poor man’s Mexican meal of tomatillo enchiladas, flat not rolled, topped with cheese, sour cream and onion with a side of homemade pinto beans. Yum! And she welcomes my siblings with their own special meals.
She doesn’t pretend to know something she does not know. She isn’t afraid to be vulnerable.
She traveled alone (for the first time in her life) to Japan for my emergency c-section…right before my parent’s 30th wedding anniversary!!
She is so discreet. A true lady. Never poking her nose in gossip, never interfering with her children’s love life (even when she saw them in tears as teenagers in love).
She has more energy than any mom I have ever met. At 56, she puts me to shame with all she manages at home and at work.
She is a fantastic grandmother. She has literally rolled around the ground with my boys!
When she worked in a factory in Chicago, she would go to work in the latest 80′s fashion! Sometimes in pumps!
Her presence makes me feel relieved, peaceful and in no need to be in “control”.
She’s the least judgemental person I know. My mother taught us not to judge anyone, to try to walk in their shoes instead.
Mother’s Day is approaching. My mother will be able to welcome her third grandchild on Mexican Mother’s Day (May 10th). What a gift! Speaking of gifts…what are you planning for your mom or mother figure(s) this Mother’s Day?
Have a great weekend!! I know I will!!
Your friend,
Betty
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