How to Be a Happy Mom

Instructions:

Step 1. Take 10 minutes out of your morning for yourself

Take time each morning to have a cup of tea or coffee in a quiet spot.Get some air if possible.Do your nails, it might just relax you for the crazy day a head.

Step 2. Call a good friend daily.

Talking a friend and letting it out can really help in keeping your feeling in check. Being able to talk about yourself and your kids with someone who wont judge, can definitely serve as free therapy.

Step 3. Take 2 hrs out for your self every 3 days.

Just being able to go out alone for a walk, a facial or a massage can be soooooooooooo rejuvenating, I say go for it ladies we deserve it.

Step 4. Light up candles around the house where your kids can't reach.

I find that candles really relax me after a long day and can set the mood for the night, your hubby might just get lucky.

Step 5. Start a book and finish it.

Start a book that can keep you awake and finish it no matter how long it takes. You might be surprised how soothing a book can be.

Source: imamom (eHow)

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Motherhood: Making Choices About Working

A good deal of research has been done on the options for working and childcare which can help you make an informed decision, but even with all the knowledge in the world, you still have to thread your way through a messy bunch of tradeoffs.
For instance, studies have found that mothers who work are healthier than mothers who do not.1 Sounds simple, right? But behind that headline, there's a more complex truth. Research findings are almost always about the averages of groups.2 Yet you are a person, not an average! If you read a statement like "mothers who work are healthier than those who do not," you might conclude, reasonably enough, that you will be healthier if you return to work. But the statement really means only that "the average mother who works is healthier than the average mother who does not." In fact, many mothers who do not work are healthier than many mothers who do. The crux is always individual: What's right for you and your family in your particular situation. Let's look at the details that have to be considered to come up with the answer.

The Benefits of Working

The many rewards of working start with the enjoyment and fulfillment you experience from the work itself. There could be the feeling that you are using an important capacity within yourself, like a technical or managerial talent. Working offers the satisfaction of accomplishing a specific ambition (e.g., to be a teacher), and some lines of work give you the sense that you are making a contribution to society beyond your family. Certain jobs or careers also have prestige or social status. Last and usually not least, there's the additional money a job brings. As Ann Crittenden has shown in her book The Price of Motherhood, our nation's laws and policies place economic burdens and risks on all mothers, but they weigh most heavily on those who stay home with their children.

There are also pluses for the children of a working mother. Some of the physical or psychological health benefits she enjoys from working will spill over onto them - like her feeling more fulfilled, or less cranky from being cooped up with a child all day. A second paycheck means more money to buy them things, like better food and health care, or enriching experiences. Childcare carries the benefit of time with other kids and caregivers, and some breathing room from mom.3 Then there are future benefits to a child if his mom works when he's little: by not stepping off the career track - especially the fastest ones - she will probably have a larger salary when he's older.

Source: FamilyEducation

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Quotations about Motherhood (Part 5)

It's so good to know that wherever you are, a Mom is with you in spirit and in love.-- Author Unknown

It was when I had my first child that I understood how much my mother loved me.-- From "For Mother - A Bouquet of Sentiments"

Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers and sisters, aunts and cousins, comrades and friends - but only one mother in the whole world.-- Kate Douglas Wiggin

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.-- William Makepeace Thackeray

Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.-- Marion C. Garretty

Mother - that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.-- T. DeWitt Talmage

Mother's love grows by giving.-- Charles Lamb

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.-- Erich Fromm

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.-- Meryl Streep4

Motherhood is not for the faint-hearted. Frogs, skinned knees, and the insults of teenage girls are not meant for the wimpy.-- Danielle Steel

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Quotations about Motherhood (Part 4)


It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.-- Erma Bombeck

It's so good to know that wherever you are, a Mom is with you in spirit and in love.-- Author Unknown

It was when I had my first child that I understood how much my mother loved me.-- From "For Mother - A Bouquet of Sentiments"

Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers and sisters, aunts and cousins, comrades and friends - but only one mother in the whole world.-- Kate Douglas Wiggin

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.-- William Makepeace Thackeray

Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.-- Marion C. Garretty

Mother - that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.-- T. DeWitt Talmage

Mother's love grows by giving.-- Charles Lamb

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.-- Erich Fromm

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.-- Meryl Streep

Source: (Great Inspirational Quotes)

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Quotations about Motherhood (Part 3)


Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom with the dishes. -- P.J. O'Rourke

God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.-- Jewish Proverb

Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that suppose to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing.-- Toni Morrison

I know how to do anything - I'm a mom.-- Rosanne Barr

I miss thee, my Mother! Thy image is still The deepest impressed on my heart.-- Eliza Cook

I never knew how much love my heart could hold until someone called me "mommy."-- Author Unknown

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.-- Eleanor Roosevelt

I thought my mom's whole purpose was to be my mom. That's how she made me feel.-- Natasha Gregson Wagner

I'd rather be a mother than anyone on earthBringing up a child or two of unpretentious birth...I'd rather tuck a little child all safe and sound in bedthan twine a chain of diamonds about my [carefree] head.I'd rather wash a smudgy face with round, bright, baby eyesThan paint the pageantry of fame or walk among the wise.-- Meredith Gray

If at first you don't succeed, do it the way your mother told you to.-- Author Unknown

Source: (Great Inspirational Quotes)

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