Love Day
Roses are red, violets are blue,
Love for your children is always true.
(Even when you all have the flu.)
Now that you are a mom, there’s a whole new world of love out there that you hadn’t experienced before. It’s wonderful, beautiful and sometimes overwhelming.
So today, we thought we’d spare you the talk of candy, flowers and lingerie (although we do hope you get whatever your heart desires). It’s time to reflect on the extraordinary love of a mother through a few of our favourite quotes from some better known but equally savvy writers:
‘Motherhood – all love begins and ends there.’
(Robert Browning)
‘Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.’
(Erich Fromm)
‘Of course if you like your kids, if you love them from the moment they begin, you yourself begin all over again, in them, with them, and so there is something more to the world again.’ (William Saroyan)
‘For a mother is the only person on earth who can divide her love among ten children and still each child have her love.’
(Anonymous)
And, when you reach the end of your day and you are exhausted from all the love, consider these words:
‘There never was a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.’
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Even Ralph knew you can’t enjoy your own candy until after they’re all tucked in for the night.
Happy Valentine’s Day from the team at SavvyMom.