Meteorologists are predicting stormy weather for tomorrow. Incidentally, that’s Mother’s Day and although this may sound strange, the storms seem fitting. Let me explain:
This is my second Mother’s Day. I barely slipped in last year, as my daughter was just a wee little thing. So for the past year and change, I’ve endured my share of storms. According to my mother, and every other mom I speak with, I have yet to witness the really difficult stuff.
I feel that the love I have for my mother grows stronger with each passing day. I realize she surely weathered many a storm raising 7 children, and for many years as a single parent after my parents divorced. The thought is unimaginable that what I’m going through with my toddler she did 7 times over!
Mommyhood is such a beautiful experience, but the toughest job I’ve ever had! On this Mother’s Day, I will take the time to make sure my mom knows she is very much loved and appreciated. I feel so grateful to have a mom who exhibited the wisdom and compassion needed to raise loving and intelligent children. Because of her, my siblings and I are disciplined, determined, compassionate, intelligent, and myriad other attributes that we owe in part to our upbringing.
Happy Mother’s Day mom!
Thanks for all that you gave and continue to give that has allowed me to be a great mom to my own child.
An Eco-Friendly Party…I Tried!
All of you Jasiri readers who’ve read this post know that I was trying to throw an eco-friendly birthday party for Nia. Well I tried my best but as life typically has it, not everything went according to plan. The primary stumbling block was in trying to obtain the disposable plates and cups that I wrote about in the last post. Come to find out, Aha-Yes! only delivers locally. I added the products I wanted, and when I went to check out they wanted me to choose the location where I would pick up my purchase. What! I’m in NC, I want an eco-friendly party but not enough to travel to California to pick up disposable plates and cups.
I didn’t want people bringing lots of toys as gifts, ’cause goodness knows we have enough in this house! So I offered low-cost suggestions. Most people gave clothes, which was great since a huge box of Nia’s clothes was destroyed recently (long, disgusting story for another post). Then there were the decorations. None really, but I did have balloons. You gotta have balloons!
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I have to get my video camera fixed so I can record some of the funny mess that goes on in this house. My daughter and niece crack me up! When they see each other for the first time after being apart all day, they just look at one another and begin laughing hysterically. I’m talking serious giggle fits that go on, and on, and on…
So about the title of this post. You may be saying to yourself, “So what does she call you? Mommy? Mama? Ma?” Nope. She calls me Day-day. Yep! Day-day. At first I thought she was trying to say da-da. Then I thought no she’s not attempting the word daddy, because that word is practically non-existent around here. I refer to her father as baba, and that’s what my niece calls her daddy too. So I’m thinking, maybe its just a sound that all babies make — mama, dada, googoo, gaga. Nope. Day-day means something because it isn’t random. She most often looks straight at me when she says it. Then it hit me. She’s calling me by my name, Dara (pronounced day-ruh, i guess that would be the phonetic spelling). You see, my niece calls me Aunty Day-day, and she says it like a million times a day. So I guess Nia picked up on it. So now I’m day-day to her. Not ma-ma, she rarely uses the word. I’ve heard her say it a few times. Not a big problem. But I’m wondering if I should try to discourage her from calling me day-day. What do you think?
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