A Nurse's Point of View

Day 7 of my writing challenge. Prompt - Write to your kids or to your younger self. Writing to oneself is kind of awkward but sometimes it's just a way to remind us of what we did in the past and what we need to do in the present. This letter is dedicated to the author of this blog. :) Dearest You,  How are you nowadays? I hope you are doing fine and everything is okay.  I have several questions for you, please answer it honestly so we can move on from there. Where were you a year ago? I remember you said it will be a busy year for you.   What did you do then? You even told me  you have to set some goals to accomplish on or before the year 2013 ends. Did you ever accomplish it? Did you set it in the first place? Did you at least put it in writing? I remember you just got back this time of the year last year from a nice vacation in your homeland. You were with your husband Ton and daughter Isabel. You were very happy that after almost 3...

Women especially mothers say unless a woman became a mother, she will not feel and experience the joy and happiness, loneliness and the pain of becoming one. Anybody (ladies and women) can relate to me in situations like when having arguments with our moms, they would always say , “ You will understand everything once you become a mother” for which I did and for sure a lot of you will agree with me. I became a mom for the first time when I was 27 and the second time 10 years after. I was blessed with a son and a daughter. Before the birth of my daughter, my mother supported me a lot taking care of my first born, Justin Raphael. She was present in my son’s life , she was like the second mother to him back then, I wasn’t around him most of the time because I needed to work and went abroad twice. I had and still having my shares of joy and pain being a mom but for now I will talk about the person who gave me life and who have loved me until the last breath of her life - my dea...