Mothers are a priceless gem that God has bestowed upon us, even though we are not deserving of this precious gift. I love my mother dearly but now I have even more of an appreciation for her. One may ask why the new appreciation all the sudden? Well, I am about to tell you why.

I have seen my mother work endlessly, twenty-four hours 7 days a week, three hundred and sixty-five days a year for the entirety of my life (lets not get into my age... after all it's just a number), and she has never once complained. I just come home from class or work and all I want to do is nap or just lay around being lazy. My mother not only held a full time job for many years but as also fulfilled her motherly duties for all these years meaning she was a chef, a nurse, a maid, a teacher, and what have you.

All these years I've always thought so what, what's the big deal? She is a mom after all it's what all moms do. Never realizing how hard she worked until two months ago. What happened two months ago you might ask that made me see my own mother in a different light?

Well... the answer to that question is that I myself became a mother about 2 months ago to a beautiful baby boy. Who knew how easy it is to fall in love with a tiny human, or the fact that love like this exists. I have never been more in love in my entire life as I love my son, he truly is the best thing that could happen to me.

Being a mom is hard work, but it has beautiful rewards, just to see that gorgeous smile on my son's face makes all my worries go away. Just to hear him laugh brings music to my ears. Having my son made me realize how hard my mother has worked to raise us. (Of course both my parents have worked so hard and spend their lives towards us so we could be better humans, but dad has always been doing his fatherly duties and working). Mom has been with us as a stay at home mom and then also as a working mom. I remember when we were younger she would come home from work and make dinner do laundry, cleaning the house, and everything else without ever complaining. I come home just from class and start complaining of how tired I am.

However, that has changed since I've become a mother, I've learned from my mom how your child is your first priority and nothing in the world matters more than your child. I look forward to many years of raising my son into a great man that I know he can be. If I can be half the mom my mother is I would consider myself lucky. Growing up my mom used to say this one line "you wouldn't understand until you become a mother," that I never really understood until now. I know one thing for sure, and that is that I have a new found respect for her, a kind of respect of appreciation. Because I know she is there for me no matter what.

Over all what I'm trying to say is that, do something nice for your mother. Appreciate all the hard work she does that you see, and the hard work that you don't see. Take her out. Tell her how much you love her and care for her, and not just on Mother's day but every day. After all you only get one mother and she is a priceless gem that no one can replace.