My greatest blessings call me Mom...

My sweet sons, made my favorite breakfast and served me all day! (Thanks Clark for teaching them how to love me)

mother (muth'er) n. 1. a female parent 2. the origin of something (Webster's New World Dictionary)

Never has there been a greater understatement than this definition!  As a child I never had any greater role model I could look to than my Mother, as an adult there isn't anything I hold more sacred than my calling as a Mother.  I have been smiled on by the Heavens, and have a been given a Mother that made me want to be  Mom so badly I could taste it.  I also have 2 Grandmothers, one still here with me and one passed on that have influenced me in every corner of my life.  I have a Mother in Law that treats me as if I were her own, and raised a son that allows me to grow in my own role as a Mother, I have a sister that shows me how being a Mom means sometimes letting go and trusting they will be OK.
One of the greatest gifts that I have received from being a Mom for almost a decade is not only my capacity for love has increased, but I gained through the years a quiet confidence that I can do and be anything that my children may need.  My heart is full of so much gratitude and admiration for all the Mother's in my life, I am constantly watching and learning from them ways to do better and be better.

Grandma Flygare (or Grandma "Corn Flakes", as Jantzen calls her) has been gone for a little more than a year now, and I still miss her everyday.  She taught me so much by word and by action.  As the last year has past I have come to realize just how much I depended on her to coach me through those tough "Mommy Moments".  With her kind sweet voice, and the unconditional love that is unique to a Grandma she helped me through so many days when I felt like I just wasn't getting it right.  I was blessed to be able to tell her how much she meant to me when she was still here, but I didn't even understand how much that was until she was gone.  She raised 5 boys, and so I knew that if she said it could be done with five, two should be a piece of cake.  She taught me to be more patient, to not get worked up over things I couldn't change, and most of all she would say to me when I was getting overwhelmed with all a Mommy's duties, "Sweetheart -- it will keep."  She was truly an Angel here on earth, and now I know she is with her own dear Mother, that she loves so much.  I can still feel her supporting and cheering us on, even now!

"If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been." 
~  Robert Brault