Do Mothers Ever Rest?

From the day you put to bed, you never really sleep or rest  because
1. You want to make sure the baby is well fed, when asleep you want to make sure everything is perfect when they wake up.
2. You want your home to be clean enough so they don't get sick.
3. You remember daddy, he needs attention too, so you cook and make sure he is happy.
4. You remember friends, family and colleagues, you don't want them to think you are ignoring them just because you started a family, so you try to stay in touch.
5. You remember you have not had time to take care of yourself, you start to read how to look good while being a mother and a wife. You realise you need to lose a ton of weight.
6. You think about how you need to get a job to add to the household income so you either apply for a job, go back to school or try to get a promotion.
7. When everything seems stable you start to worry about what school you want your child to go and you need to prepare a year earlier.
8. You actually worry about everything.
9. You wonder how what you are doing right now affects your family's future, you wonder if you will ever be comfortable.
10. You wonder who your children will end up with.
Oh you just wonder !
Mother's never really rest.

Sweet Mother!

A mother's intuition, never to be underestimated.
12:36am about to go to bed and d same feeling every night to go check on my son (he sleeps alone in his room) came to me . I wanted to ignore just because I just carried him to the bathroom about 5 mins earlier, then I remembered an incident (real reason why I'm sharing this).                                    
I was so tired one night, my husband was away for work (one of those nights that you don't even care to check if the house is in order just because your bed is calling), then I had this very strong feeling to go check on my son, at first I ignored but then I thought 'never, ever will I ignore any thought to check on my son'. I forced myself to his room and I almost passed out, my heart I am sure skipped several beats because of the sound I heard followed with what I saw. There on the bed my son was struggling to breath just because he had wrapped himself up in his duvet, wrapped up like a serious candy in its wrapper (if you ever did laundry manually remember the way you squeeze excess water from a  very big bedsheet spread with someone on each end twisting in opposite directions at the same time). Yep that's how my son was wrapped up in his duvet, till today I have no idea how that happened. It took about 10 seconds to get him out and he was covered in sweat (as in drenched in his own sweat). I was so scared I didn't even remember I was feeling sleepy I immediately carried him to our room for the rest of the night.
It took God to give me the 'mother's intuition and it also took his grace not to ignore the feeling. I thank God for these little mercies that I continue to experience in my life and I pray that the Lord will continue to use me to help my family in every aspect. As this year runs out I am looking back and thanking God for all I have achieved,  all that I am yet to achieve, for the miracle of sleeping and waking, Oh Lord I thank you. You are forever number 1 in my life may the joy of motherhood visit all my friends waiting for the fruit of the womb. Bopetiti akololo yio pe baba......
I thank God for all the wonderful men and women in my life, I thank God for planting each and everyone of them in my life for one reason or the other, some to teach me lessons of life and others to help me run the race of life. For the remainder of this year as this month is a blessed month because I am a December baby, the few days left shall be full of joy, miracles, unexpected blessings, overflowing abundance in our lives. We shall not die young, our children shall not die young and our parents shall live long enough to enjoy the fruits of their labor. This I pray oh Lord....

Motivation!

You can chose to exercise or you can chose not to exercise
You can chose to eat healthy or you can chose to eat junk food
You can chose to learn or you can chose to stay stagnant
You can chose to be beautiful or you can chose to be ugly
You can chose to be nice/kind or you can chose to be mean
You can chose to hardworking or you can chose to be lazy
You can chose to be overweight or you can chose to be healthy

Eat right, be happy, live life, be a blessing to everyone you come across.