“Mom Works Beyond” so mom should WIN big!
We all know what we HAVE to do as a mom but what extra things do you do that you hadn’t planned on? Share how you have overcome a unique challenge or gone above the call of duty as a mom and you can be chosen to win a $500 Walmart shopping spree and a year supply of Aquafresh products! I am helping spread the word about Aquafresh’s “Mom Works Beyond” campaign and I will be nominating one of my readers to be entered in the grand prize drawing. I’m not sure how many other blogs are participating but I bet the odds are totally worth trying for! You can also check out Aquafresh on Facebook and they have a Mom Works Beyond section. I will also have some great Aquafresh products to give away and Aquafresh will be sending me some to review on the blog. I can’t think of a mom who doesn’t go that extra mile for her kids so share something special you do as a mom, even if its something little because its often the little things that our kids remember most!
TO BE ENTERED IN THE MOM WORKS BEYOND CONTEST:
- leave me a comment letting me know what you do to “work beyond” as a mom (or let me know what YOUR mom does that is special if you aren’t a mom)
- I will randomly pick one person on JUNE 9th to be entered into the grand prize drawing, the Aquafresh team will pick the Grand Prize winner on July 7th
- I will also pick two people to win some great prizes from Aquafresh. I have 2 coupons of Aquafresh iso-active Whitening toothpaste and 2 boxes of Aquafresh White Trays to give away and one lucky reader will get a $50 Walmart gift card!. For these prizes I will pick winners whose entries I find compelling or inspirational.
Visit Aquafresh.com for some mom tips on caring for kids’ teeth.
I’m most excited to try the whitening trays because now that I am a mom of four I drink lots of coffee! You can click here to get $7 off if you want to try them too!
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We have went through a lot this past year with my husband being laid off and adjusting to unemployment and trying to get a new job and going to school. Then we had to move, which was hard, and finally found out baby #3 is on the way. We just keep are heads held high, and are thankful were together and have healthy kids eaglesforjack@gmail.com
I just try to remember how lucky I am to be part of a strong family – it really means everything
To “work beyond” I make sure that I do special little things for each of my children separately so that they know how much I love them (like making a personalized gift, packing a homemade surprise snack in their school bag, taking one of them on a surprise trip to the park). I also try to give them opportunities to be creative and express themselves through art and give them lots of time to “just be kids”. I make sure I take lots of pictures so they can always look back on the fun they are having growing up!
Anne is the winner of the $50 Walmart card!
My aunt ( who raised me,) is a very special person. She is caring for my 92 year old uncle ( who has dementia) and her sister, who’s recovering from Breast Cancer. I don’t know how she does it, having to care for two family members without having anytime at all for herself.
I think every mom goes beyond. We are all tasked to do so much from working outside the home, teaching our children, caring for our husbands and our home and volunteering in our kids schools or other activities, while still trying to eek out a little something for ourselves.
I have recently volunteered to lead my local moms group for a second time ofter taking a year off. In this group we focus on giving to the women who have given so much. Although it can be a lot of work it is so worth it when you hear the stories from the women about how the group has helped them feel like women again and not just a multi-tasker.
Driving the kids hither and yon for their appointments and activities, I can’t imagine how mothers who have a full time job outside the home handle it all!
Thanks for the giveaway!
I work beyond by raising a bipolar child.
I tried to be a good parent, and know I failed miserably in many areas. I learned that love can and does cover a multitude of parental inadequacies. It seems the love won out. My daughter is one of the most awesome moms I have ever had the priveledge of knowing. She had a brain injury due to oxygen deprivation shortly after birth. A lifetime of struggles in many areas have followed, yet she faces each one head on with a spirit of peace, tenacity, and will do. She is the parent of an eleven year old daughter. She works full time, and home schools her daughter. If she doesn’t make me look like, she certainly makes me feel like Mother of the Year. Yet the child she is raising is even more kind, loving, and caring than her mom. I did not Mother as a job well done, but I am a Mother who has done well in her job.
My mom is the one who has gone beyond from day one. I have been blessed and graced with the most loving mom. My mom adopted me at 3 days old, never lied to me, and more importantly, never made me feel anything but loved and wanted. I will always remember being told that I was specially picked from thousands of babies (OK, so maybe she lied, but what a great one!). Never for one day did I doubt her love, and I never felt less of a daughter because I am not her biological child. Now a mother myself, I try to follow her example and make my children feel loved and special each and every day. My mom has given me all my birthmother could not, and all I could ever need.
While its memorable to me, its not a story that any other mom hasn’t come across. My son likes to grab his butt during diaper changes and one time when he was about 1.5 yrs old, he grabbed during a poop change and rubbed his fingers all in it. Then he put them straight into his mouth. Face like a lemon, but then wiped the poop all over his face and then on me. We went straight to the tub. Working full time as a stay at home mom during the day and working at my job during the nights is tough, but its worth it. Digging poop out of my son’s mouth is my favorite (and least favorite) “going beyond” story. Thanks! thebubbledies(at)gmail(dot)com
In the process of becoming a mother, I went beyond and discovered myself all over again. The process uncovered things that I now articulate as truths for me. You have to empathize with people without crossing the line into pity. You have to be honest with yourself before you can ever be honest with someone else. You have to make sure your criticism does not include ridicule. You have to have a sense of humor, especially when things are not going well. You have to do your best to respect people, even when you disagree with them. Most of all, you have to know when to trade winning an argument so you can win over a heart.
I would say that of all the reading and studying I did about parenting, all the observations of other children, all the discussions I had with other mothers and respected elders, my children were still my best teachers. If I approached them with respect and honesty, they responded in kind. When I got edgy and snappish because of competing priorities, they responded in kind. Nothing keeps you on your toes more than an observant child.
So for me, I love being a mother because of the reciprocal relationship of parenting. It’s not just love, although that’s a big part of it; it is the intangible reward of knowing that if you survive all the dirty diapers, scraped knees, 2 AM feedings, bad dreams, silly fights, broken windows, hurt feelings, raging hormones – you might just find that you, yourself, have become a grown-up that you actually admire. Thats how I went beyond
I can remember my Mom always saying “Family Comes First”, and she proved it every day.
Nursing my twin daughters for the first year of their lives was very difficult, but so worth it!
As a single young women I discovered I was pregnant. I was shocked and scared and not sure what to do! I quickly learned that the best thing for this unborn child would be to be placed for adoption and I found THE most wonderful family in the world to raise him! The adoption has been very open and I see him on occasion. It is amazing to me to have been a mother for the 2 days I spent with him in the hospital and my time carrying him for all I was able to learn and grow from him. I will be forever grateful for that life changing experience and that beautiful little boy who changed my life!! I am now happily married and with 2 little boys of my own and pregnant with number 3. I love my boys and my life very much but I’ll be forever grateful for that first special child that made such a difference to who I am today!
I truly think that every mom ends up going beyond almost every day! But, my time of working beyond has been during my husband’s deployments overseas with the air force. It is so hard to put aside your personal exhaustion and worries and pull yourself together to be a rock for your children. As hard as it is for the service members overseas, it is equally hard for the families left behind and the children left without parents. It was especially hard for me that my children couldn’t quite understand why daddy was gone for so long but were old enough to miss him terribly. Thankfully, there are no more deployments ahead for us, but I will never forget that there are so many families right now in that situation with moms working way beyond!
I’m a working mom so I do what I can to get things done at home and also be involved at my daughter’s daycare. Housework is 50/50 at our house (which is such a blessing for working moms – we’re not in the 1950s anymore people!) but since I enjoy cooking I do most of that. It’s a challenge balancing my work and home life, but my daughter’s worth it.
Both our children are adopted and have special needs. One day a well-meaning friend said, “Your kids are so lucky to have you as parents. Other people wouldn’t have adopted them.” I gently told her that she had it backward. We were the lucky ones! Yes, it can be very challenging at times, but I am a better person by having these amazing children in my life! Every day they teach us by example, love, patience, kindness, perseverence, courage, etc. I am truly blessed to be their mother!
Working beyond as a mom is what I’ve always tried tried to do for my Son over the many years. Waiting on him hand and foot and even when sick or having something like the flu or a cold .. He always come first, Only us mothers know what I’m saying. I try to give my son little things to surprise him, not expensive things but things he likes to use or play with or special snacks that are Healthy for him which isn’t always an easy thing to do since we know how kids just love junk foods. My time is his time and he knows I’ll drop anything to spend time with him and make it a fun time even when plum tuckered out. There’s just a myriad of things I do for him and my family that I do above the call of duty as being a mom but it’s all in a days work as holding the Title of mom and I wouldn’t change it at all.
Every mom goes above and beyond every single day,we do not get days off!
ardelong2(at)gmail(dot)com
I try hard to make sure my kids have everything they need, including lots of love. I want them to always know how much I love them.
Last year, I moved 600 miles away from my mother (from Ohio to North Carolina). She calls me every single day without fail to check on me. Even when she and my father went on a cruise, she made my brother promise to call and check on me every day. There’s nothing like knowing that someody loves you that much.
My mother couldn’t do everything, but she made sure to encourage my hobbies and interests and cultivate new ones. As a result, I knew how to entertain myself (important for a latch-key only child) and developed self-esteem.
My Mom works beyond because she puts her children First! When I was a Senior in High School I was put in a hospital about 2 hours away the day that my mom had a VERY IMPORTANT Nursing Class she had to go to. Instead of going to the class and risking failing the Rn program she took me to that hospital. She was in her last week of nursing school and she could have failed the whole semester just because she missed that class. She put me first and she came to visit every day during visiting hours during the whole 2 weeks. Everyday my mom would come she would bring me a book or something for me. She did everything she could to make sure I did not fail my Senior Year. I graduated and my mom did too!
I think my mom goes above and beyond by helping me everyday by taking care of her sick daughter and giving me a place to live. Im so greatful for her and would be lost without her.A couple years ago my dad died on top of everything else we were going though. It is easier to get up everyday knowing that someone loves and cares about me.
tishajean@charter.net
Let’s put it this way…. one day when I was hanging pictures outside my daughter’s classroom, somebody walked by and asked if I slept at the school. Somebody else walked by and said that they were glad I’d finally gotten a job there (uh… I was just volunteering – I think they were saying that I was there WAY too often to be a volunteer)
I gave up my career to stay home with my children. Living on one income is challenging. We only have one car that my husband takes to work so we do a lot of in home activities, no vacations, we rarely eat out and we shop at consignment stores. We both feel it’s worth it to sacrifice so I can stay home with our children. They will remember me being there for them and not the fact that we didn’t have a lot of material things.
Susan Smith is the person moving on for a chance in the grand prize drawing (she is also getting a coupon for free aquafresh)!
My mother stayed in a bad marriage, and it traumatized us as kids. I got out of a bad marriage, and I did it without any support from my ex. I couldn’t allow my son to be in a bad situation.
Despite being an older mom with chronic health issues I’ve always been actively involved in my children’s activities. From being a room mom, girl scout leader, music dept fund raising chairman, etc. Thanks so much! pamelashockley(AT)netscape(DOT)net
My challenge was when my daughter was ill and I took care of her. She did not make it, and it was and still is heartbreaking.
I think all good moms work beyond and I try to do the same. I work more than full-time and also try to parent more than full-time as well!
Mothers go beyond every day in some way. Natural caregivers who put themselves last and their loved ones first even when dealing with their own poor health and other numerous problems. I myself have worked 2 jobs at one time and a midnight shift later etc. Whatever it took for my child and family. My daughter became disabled her senior year. She would have been an “Honor Graduate”.I have tried hard since to make her life as loving,happy,meaningful and comfortable as possible. She inspires me every day to go beyond. She has never lost her spirit and still uses her awesome intelligence and numerous God given creative gifts to enhance her life.She is not just my daughter…she’s also my best friend! I love her very much and love never fails or knows any limits.(Not even beyond!)
Thanks!
I am a blessed mother of 3 with my 4th little wonder expected to arrive in October. After completing my bachelors degree in 2001, I decided to put aside my career dreams and stay home to raise our growing family. In the 9 years since my 1st son was born my family has relocated out of state 3 times in order for my husband to pursue career opportunities that would best benefit our family. Moving with small children is a difficult task, but knowing that it was for the best future for our family kept things in perspective.
I was a military wife with 5 children and a husband who was deployed for 6 months at a time. We were far away from family so I had to make all the decisions on my own and then justify those decisions when my husband came back home. It was long before the days of email so those decisions were sometimes hard to make. I don’t think I ever did more than most moms. I supported my children in their interests, Girl Scout leader, PTA committee member and chauffeur to all their events. I’m very proud of them.
I’d love to praise my own mother for she not only raises my baby sister,dad and brother by living a healthy lifestyle, but she supports me with my illness(fibromyalgia)! As if this take up all her time– Mom goes above and beyond by helping my sick Grandma. (who stubbornly still lives at home even though she needs the extra care!) Trust me. It’s no fun acting as a nurse for a relative. How does someone do all that without complaining!?
Hence, my mother is quite an amazing woman.