Will my daughter Sumi become a mother by Mother’s Day or not? Baby is due on 13 May, Mother’s Day, and she and my son-in-law Toshi are relaxed and waiting. Will the baby choose to come early, on time, or late? It’s been said that-early, on time, late-gives an inkling to the baby’s personality. When I heard this I started to think back and, with the little thinking I did on this, I’d say perhaps that’s true. I bought a card yesterday for Alicia my daughter-in-law as it’s her first Mother’s Day, Sebastian was born on 25 May last year. She, Michael and Sebastian are spending time in Aruba, attending a wedding, putting Sebastian’s feet on sand and in ocean water for the first time, and I trust having fun and laughing the whole time they’re there. Nice! And daughter Emi is busy having just finished another year at Columbia and arranging a summer of travel, work and fun.
From one Mother’s Day year to the next a mother strives for maturity, insights, developments, understanding, and all the other intangibles that enrich her relationship with her children. She knows that everything doesn’t have to be in perfect order for her to appreciate and enjoy Mother’s Day. Trying to comprehend what being a mother is extends to every fiber of a woman’s being, and it’s impossible to know what this means until you’re living that experience. One day I realized that motherhood isn’t a popularity contest that there are those times when, if you’re being the kind of mother necessary in the world of today, you won’t always be the “popular” one in the family. That’s okay, because the good part is that eventually there will come a time when all that will change. Mother’s need to trust, and that’s something they tend to learn quickly.
I’ve noticed many fathers out, sometimes alone, with baby. Keep it up guys. Ah, yes, fathers – that’s for another writing. But then again they’re so much a part of Mother’s Day that they have to be mentioned.
Happy Happy Mother’s Day! – to all the mothers in the world.