Mother’s Day Thoughts – On A Recommended Blog

by Seana Smith on Sunday, May 9th, 2010

Ah lovely, Mother’s Day again. I’m all for mothers, I love mums and I love how we all wish each other a Happy Mother’s Day but I do have one bone to pick:  Mother’s Day is not just a day for happy mothers… it’s a day for all mothers, so lets all make sure we also enjoy it as:

Grumpy Mother’s Day

Overwhelmed Mother’s Day

Confused Mother’s Day

Tired Mother’s Day

Ecstatic Mother’s Day

And even, for some of us, once in a while…

Hungover Mother’s Day!!

Anyway, self-care is a great topic for Mother’s Day, I think, for without it, we cannot mother.  Rather than warble on with my own thoughts I shall point you to some which are very clearly expressed in a blog entry on a fairly new blog called MOKAS Living.  MOKAS stands for Mums Of Kids with Asperger Syndrome – which is also a support group on the Northern Beaches of Sydney.

Hope you find something useful for yourself in this entry:

http://mokasliving.blogspot.com/

PS  Just a little aside, especially for families whose children have been recently diagnosed.  The first mum I ever called after Tom’s diagnosis was a lovely woman whose son had been diagnosed about two months before. Sarah has always been a single mum and has worked fulltime all the years we have known each other; my husband works away a great deal.  Neither of us has family in Sydney and we became friends and did lots of things together with the boys.

The boys often rode their trikes around the same biketrack (whilst we wondered whether they’d ever manage to ride bikes), they jumped on trampolines and ran around in Spiderment costumes.  As time went by the boys had sleepovers together and we took them to the movies.

Now both aged 13, the boys go to the movies by themselves these days and we have coffees, or even wave them goodbye with instructions to get the bus home.  Both boys are mad Sea Eagles fans and they went to the match on Saturday night in Brookvale, and this time they had no parents with them at all.  They were delighted!    Sarah and I spent the time together and called occasionally then picked them up.

I’m so gratfeul that Tom has such a good and long standing friend, and someone who talks exactly his language.  The boys and we mums have had ten years of friendship; these are our silver linings.