Thank you Mama Merla!

I used to admire mommies taking care of their babies before. I loved watching my cousin bathing her daughter, my sister carrying her cute Meagan in her arms and all these mother and baby moments. During that time, all I thought was this task is very easy and if I too will have my own little one I know I will do just fine. But all along I was wrong.

When we arrived home from the hospital, I was excited to do all the things for my Cedric. I thought I would not need the help of anyone at all. But came the first few days and the days after I realized that although I thought I have surpassed the most difficult times in my life, there was never more difficult than being a new mom.

I too, like all other working moms, had my realizations and crying moments when I did not know why he was spilling all these milk out of his mouth, why he would not stop crying. I blamed myself countless of times when he cries because I was thinking I fractured or broke a bone and all because I do not know how to carry or hold him and I was already talking to him praying he knew how to talk so that he could tell me outright what he wanted or what was wrong. It was not easy at all. And then I realized all along that MY MOM IS RIGHT, HAS ALWAYS BEEN RIGHT! I realized how much pain I had given my mom before and how many chances I failed to take to show my mom “I LOVE HER SO MUCH AND THAT I WANT TO THANK HER FOR BRINGING ME UP SO WELL AND FOR LOVING ME AND MY SIBLINGS AND FOR ALWAYS BEING THERE FOR US! MY MOM IS THE BEST MOM IN THE WORLD AND I WILL NEVER EXCHANGE HER FOR ANYONE.”

Now, that I am also a mother myself, I will do my best to always remember the lessons she has taught me and to always remember how she raised us. I will surely be guided by those principles and teachings she has instilled in us. Thank you Mama Merla for everything!

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7 Comments to “Thank you Mama Merla!”

By Chris Taylor, July 1, 2010 @ 11:16 am

April, so befitting to be expressing such words of honor and admiration to your mother who not only did a stellar job in raising you, Shannon and Hanz, but she did it all single handedly, working into the night, waking before dawn to give each and every one of you a bright and hopeful future. I recall the stories of the challenges to maintain her buying and selling business.. the food business that she started and Shannon was there as her right hand partner, cooking beginning at 4am, such a good example of faithfulness, good stewardship and dilligence… Look at how you all have turned out, such amazing Christians. The seeds she has sown are reaping a great harvest.
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