IT'S NOT ABOUT ABILITY OR INABILITY...

..... IT’S ABOUT AVAILABILITY. When my three daughters were perky little kids running here and there all over the house and I, as a working mom, was working my butt off at the office, there were days when the maid would call me up and tell me that one of the kids was running a fever or the other wasn’t eating her food, or the eldest won’t go to school. Well, in matters of illness, I’d have no second thoughts bout rushing home. My boss would have to put up with that one, like it or not. Other than that, I’d have the maid bring the errant little one to the phone and we’d talk. In this instance, the naughty little angel would spill her heart out and I’d be there glued to my seat listening while the clock was ticking off the minutes like a taxi meter. Yet it was worth it all. I knew she was smiling when the conversation finally ended. A mother can sense that easily.

I wasn’t trained to be a mother; no woman is ever prepared to become one. Even if you have seen your mother, aunts, grandmother, and lady friends do it… it’s never really learned until you are in it yourself. But the one great lesson I have learned is this --- be available. No matter if you’re late in the night preparing for a sales meeting the following morning, when she comes to you for whatever reason – stop what you’re doing and be with her. She’s the number one person in your life --- so let her know it! You can’t be Perfect Mom, but you can be Available Mom! And that is certainly perfect, no matter how you look at it.