Until Mother's Day

I feel like I have so many exciting "things" starting this week in my life.  I keep thinking by Mother's Day I will have completed, be half way there or closer to accomplishing these exciting things.  

AND...what a great way to start out coming off of the last several days.  I swear my guardian angel was out there this past week.  Thank you to all the people both friends.....and new acquaintances ; ), who gave me such validation and added grandeur to my life.  I honestly can't believe what this week brought me....by way of people and their kind words. DEFINITELY TIMELY!  They all must have been inspired......or like I said....pushed a little by my guardian angel.

OK, so back to Mother's Day.  One minor thing I MUST accomplish, which I cannot believe I have not done before now, is read "I Am A Mother" by  Jane Clayson.  I am so intrigued by the media it got a few years back and the excerpts I've read.  Why have I not read this?!?  

 I served her a few times when I waited tables in college.  She is so nice!
{photo courtesy of Meridian Magazine}

One of my favorites {when referencing her feelings at the point in her career where she could have chosen to be a working mother *}, was something she said she had heard:

 "If it looks good to the world, but doesn't feel right in your soul, it's really no success at all."

She was at the top of her game career wise {host of The Early Show for CBS} and left it all behind for what she calls the most important job in the world, being a mother. 

*I had to {*} that comment because I recently had an epiphany.  Pretty sad I just realized this, but this is how it all went down.  

One day I had the TV on for background noise and heard, "When we come back, meet the woman who has it all.  How she juggles career, exercise, marriage and children."   

I thought, "That's not having it all."  {to me} Then came the epiphany........"Wait a minute....maybe having it all means something different to her than it does to me."  AND, thus began my path to the acknowledgment that HAVING IT ALL, is truly relative.   Here, all these years I thought my way was the RIGHT way.: )

"HAVING IT ALL", means defining what IT MEANS TO YOU and then going after that.