Heaven’s greatest gift to me just celebrated his sixth birthday yesterday. Children really grow up fast. I can’t believe my dear Marcus is already in preschool and oftentimes speaks to me as if he is more than my age. Needless to say, I am one of the proudest, if not the proudest, mother in the world. My son is my life and so far, he has done a pretty good job filling it with joy and love.
In my memory, it’s still very clear how Marcus came into being. I delivered him through cesarean operation, a fairly big boy who weighed 7.3 pounds at birth. I was only able to see him on the second day because the nurses won’t allow him out of the nursery and I wasn’t fit to walk before then. He was so cute wearing a pink pranela. Why pink you’d say? The ultrasound result declared we are going to have a baby girl and we actually picked a name for her already — sophia andrea. We were very happy nevertheless, my husband and I have always wanted a baby boy. It’s as if it’s destined that our first son would be a boy. I have always felt it in my guts that my child would be a “him,” an evidence of what they call a woman’s intuition, and more.
When I held me son in my arms, the world stopped. It was then that I told myself, my life would never be the same again. I was praying that my son would not grow up, that he would always remain fragile and small so he will forever need me for protection. I was so in-love with my baby that I took every responsibility with him a joy including shopping for his clothes, milk and disposable diapers. In the next years of his life, I have devoted myself to parenting and put aside the “activities” I used to indulge in when I was still single.
Being a parent has brought me so much learning experiences that I would never learn in school even if I take a PhD on child care or the like. My Marcus has taught me life’s lessons that I would never master in school or a in a training center. I am growing up with him and I would never trade these milestones of his development with me more than anything else in the world. I love being a mom.
Being a parent has brought me so much learning experiences that I would never learn in school even if I take a PhD on child care or the like. My Marcus has taught me life’s lessons that I would never master in school or a in a training center. I am growing up with him and I would never trade these milestones of his development with me more than anything else in the world. I love being a mom.
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