tough times

it is so difficult, ever since i became a mother, to see or hear about any child in any kind of pain. i didn't understand what it's like to see a child suffer, until i had a child of my own, because i just didn't know how a child is loved until i did it myself. 

being a woman

the older i grow, the more i notice the differences between men and women. women are mothers - whether we are daughters or sisters or wives or mothers or grandmothers, we do a lot of mothering in any relationship with a man. whereas for each other, we don't automatically go into mother mode. i think we get the short end of the stick... men get to be babies all their lives and we get to do all the work. :P