True Love

True Love

Everything had started nine months earlier, my life finally began to make sense. Now I lay here in this hospital bed watching as they bring my beautiful baby boy and place him in my arms. I never knew what it meant to love until I held him so close to my heart. Stanton Jeffrey Perry, born April 12,2004 taught me how to love. My first born child, my only son, my pride and joy. Becoming a mother has changed not only who I am, but how I view the world.

Every thought, every action I take revolves around my children. I have to think of how the outcome will affect their lives. There have been many times when I have put my own wants and needs on the back burner to makes sure theirs are met. I do this not out of duty, but out of love. The feeling I got when I met that little angel for the first time was indescribable. It was like God was smiling down on me.

I cannot imagine my life without my children, they are my heart and soul. Every night when I lay down to sleep, I thank God for choosing me to be their mother. It’s not a job I do, but an honor I have to care for my loves. They aren’t mine forever, God has entrusted me to watch over them as they grow and teach them to become upstanding people. I am beyond blessed to have them in my life.

All of the pains of pregnancy and childbirth are nothing compared to the joys of motherhood. This love is the greatest love that anyone can ever experience and I feel sorry for people that don’t have children. To watch them learn to crawl, walk, talk each milestone is a blessing. I know now that nobody could ever possibly love me as much or be as proud as my mother was of me. I guess it is another one of the things in life that we have to learn on our own, but motherly love is the deepest, most understanding love of all.

I sometimes wonder if my mother can see me from heaven, if she can I know I have disappointed her so many times yet made her proud many more. In a mother’s eyes our failures aren’t failures but...