Royally Waiting (Link-up #12) – Mother’s Day
Welcome to Royally Waiting, a weekly link-up where my besties Holly, Katy and I share what we are currently waiting on among other happenings! Feel free to join the fun and share what you are doing this week.
It seems like from the time I first peed on that stick motherhood has been one big waiting game. I think all moms can relate to those first 40 weeks waiting until you become a mom for the first time. You wait to hear the heartbeat, to feel the first movement, to know the sex and then finally, after a sometimes painfully long wait, you see the face of the one who made you a mom and you realize it was totally worth the wait!
You move on to waiting for the rolling over, the crawling and the walking and then right on to those first sweet words. Next thing you know you are waiting for them to learn to keep quiet! We wait for them to head to kindergarten and finish sports practice and one day you find yourself waiting for them to arrive home from college.
Motherhood to me is not so much about the waiting as it is about how I’ve spent the waiting. While there were seasons I know I may have wished away too quickly and was waiting only to move on to the next season, I learned every season has it’s beauty. There are challenges and blessings in every stage of motherhood. Sometimes the days are long and hard and your heart feels heavy and others are long and full and you can’t sleep because your heart is ready to burst. I would like to think I’ve spent the waiting emulating love and grace to my four treasures. I hope they feel my love but also see me as a human who makes mistakes too.
So while the waiting of motherhood may change through the seasons, being a mom makes me feel like a queen.
My favorite gift my family can give me on mother’s day is the gift of their time. After all the waiting, I love to be the center of attention for the day and have them wait on me! I’m the kind of girl who buys what I love when I see it but here are just a few things I think would make a moms day special!
Flowers will win me over any day of the year! A new robe is something I do not like gifting to myself but is something that makes the morning routine a little brighter. I can never have enough tumblers and have had several friends raving about Corkcicle Tumbler
Now it’s your turn to link-up! What are you waiting for this week?
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What a beautiful post about about Motherhood!! You are the BEST mom and I am with you, the gift of time is so vital, especially as they get older!! But I will take the mug, pens and nail polish too, lol!!! Have a beautiful day!!
Haha….you will never see me turn down a gift Andrea! Hope your boys treat you like a queen today!
Awe, you’re a sweet mama! Pass along those pens. I’m waiting on the rain to move out and summer to move back in over here! xo
Seriously…there are packs of pens in every bag I own. 🙂 I love some colored pens and people make fun of me in meetings.
You are so right! Every stage of motherhood has its own special aspects of it!
That robe is so pretty and I am swooning over that mug. I have one that is very similar but says Kiss Me, I’m Caffeinated. Lololol! Such sweet words and a great list!
I have to say….none of these showed up this morning but I’m loving the extra attention my family is giving me. 🙂
I agree on the gift of time! I’m doing my Mother’s Day post this Friday, and one thing I enjoy is for my family to go with me to do the errands. Sure I like to go by myself at times, but sometimes it is nice to have the kids and husband help push carts, hold the list, etc.
It really is the best Allie. Something we did one year (but for a birthday not MD) was do acts of kindness as we ran errands. We all rounded up grocery carts from the parking lot to return, bought a gift card or candy bar for the checker/sacker, bought a bunch of flowers and handed out to random customers and then headed out to lunch and picked out a family and paid for their meal. It made my heart so happy.
Love all your Mother’s Day picks.
Thank you Amy! Hope you are enjoying a beautiful Mother’s Day weekend!
I’d be happy with any or all of these. The Corksicle looks like my Yeti cup that I love. Hope you’re having a great week!!!
My sister-in-law told me about them and said she loves it so much more because the shape makes it easier to hold onto!
It’s still so surreal that I’m actually a mom for this Mother’s Day. Definitely a big waiting game, but worth every second! And how pretty is that robe, oooh and loving that nail polish <3
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I hope you are having a beautiful first Mother’s Day Kate!
Amen about all of the waiting! And waiting is one thing that I am not remotely good at. I am the definition of impatience. Lol. I love all of your picks… especially fun pens! The way to my heart is always through good stationery.
Girl…patient is not a word anyone I know would use to describe me!! In our family we have 3 impatient hot heads and 3 laid back people..it gets crazy. 🙂
So so true about all the waiting! Hope you have a happy Mother’s Day!
Same to you Laura!