{"id":1422,"date":"2013-05-12T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2013-05-12T11:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/?p=1422"},"modified":"2013-05-12T08:00:11","modified_gmt":"2013-05-12T10:30:11","slug":"mothers-day-mommy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/2013\/05\/12\/mothers-day-mommy\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother&#8217;s Day Mommy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s my first Mother&#8217;s Day! I can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s here already.<\/p>\n<p>Once reaching real adulthood (which in my opinion for me at least, was in my mid twenties&#8230; probably around when I went to college), I started having a different view of Mother&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a title=\"Three generations\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/26814432@N07\/8725031182\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Three generations\" alt=\"Three generations\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7294\/8725031182_5cab23a178_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"166\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three generations.<br \/> Photo from February 2011.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sure, I&#8217;m always eager to celebrate this day with my own mom. And I&#8217;m very lucky to have one of my grandmothers still very much with us. Heck, I even have <em>other mothers<\/em> who I&#8217;m very grateful to have in my life.<\/p>\n<p>But now I&#8217;m part of that fold. I have a little person who depends on me. I&#8217;m her mom. The only one she has.<\/p>\n<p>My mother and I are so very close. She&#8217;s my best friend. She&#8217;s someone I speak with every single day (often multiple times in one day) and we usually see each other every few days. When either of us travel, I miss her. So in my world, she&#8217;s kind of a big deal!<\/p>\n<p>Now it feels like the pressure is on. I mean, I can only hope that Missy Moo and I have as close a relationship as the one my mom and I have. I hope that has she grows up, she&#8217;ll trust me and know that I&#8217;ll always be there\u00a0 for her. At anytime and from anywhere.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 190px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a title=\"Missy Moo and Mommy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/26814432@N07\/8723914783\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mommy and Missy Moo\" alt=\"Missy Moo and Mommy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7315\/8723914783_5ed6d7fbdf_m.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mommy and Missy Moo<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So like any new mom, I&#8217;m going to do my best not to screw it up.<\/p>\n<p>And of course, I&#8217;ll try not to sweat the small stuff and when mistakes are made, try to see the humour or silver lining of each situation. Because really, that&#8217;s all you can do as a parent, right?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s my first Mother&#8217;s Day! I can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s here already. Once reaching real adulthood (which in my opinion for me at least, was in my mid twenties&#8230; probably around when I went to college), I started having a different view of Mother&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[97,26,99,98],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3zorl-mW","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1422"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1435,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions\/1435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}