LOOKING GLASS!

As I create this blog, I am heavily pregnant with my second child and just a week away from welcoming him (another boy) into our lives. As breathless as I am from my compressed diaphragm, I am equally breathless with anticipation about the events that will surely unfold, once I willingly surrender to the labor of love, yet another time.

This blog is an ode of sorts to mom's all over the world and mine in particular. I can compartmentalize my life in three distinct phases; pre-puberty, post -marriage and postpartum. Each has been uniquely gratifying and eventful, but the last is significantly poignant and all-consuming, if I may say so.

I hope that this blog serves as a reminder whenever I have doubts, enables me to laugh at my own follies in hindsight and provides a written record to my children of my trials and the efforts that I put in, to ensure that their childhood is memorable. I hope it serves us all by preserving our memories when time would rather erase them, bind us together as we marvel at the manner in which we dealt with little vagaries of life and encourage laughter when we realize that things were not always as harsh and bleak as they seemed.

This is one of the many ways in which I desire to profess my love and constant admiration to the two little miracles that have brought me such immense joy! I look back and recall my life as it was before I had my children and I realize how blessed I am to be able to nurture these two boys. I look ahead and I see trying times, tiring times, times of tantrums and teenage crises...but I won't trade spaces with the woman of the past. As I look into the mirror each morning, I have three great reasons to smile (if you include my roomie, of course) and believe me, it's all I can do to contain myself...