when I loved her so much. Thankfully when I birthed my son later that week, as soon as I held him I fell in love with him. It was a new love, a love just for him. As a mother of two, I was faced with adapting a new mindset. On an ideal day this mindset was balance. On a less ideal day it was how to juggle and survive.
Slowly without my knowing I was becoming more and more mommy and less me. My self value began to come through my children. How well mannered they were, how well dressed they were, how healthy they were, how smart they were all reflected back to me. In 2007 and 2009, my younger son and daughter were born. My ‘mom value’ doubled, as a mom of 4 had become a rare species. I can remember at one point in time,
The Mommy & Me Mindset BY PRIYA ALI I first became a mother back in 1998 at the age of 25. I was most excited to enter motherhood; it was the next big milestone in adulthood after I got married when I was 23. Mothering my first born led me to create a mindset of wanting to give her everything in the world. As I was still experiencing the newness of being more than someone’s daughter and wife, this new role was huge for me. I spent every moment with her, as her father worked long hours. She became my companion as well as my little doll that I dressed up and paraded around.
Days before giving birth to my second child and oldest son, I remember holding my daughter in my arms in a rocking chair, sobbing. I couldn’t fathom how I could love another child
driving them to four different schools in the morning, beginning my daily quest to be supermom.
