Dear Mom,
When we’re going through a rough patch, something all mothers go through, may this book provide you with some humor. CRAZY SEXY MOTHERHOOD: 40 cookies in the form of 40 short stories about the funny side of motherhood combined with 40 scrapbook pages to customize the experience of motherhood for your own unique story. Since my love language is haiku poetry, I’ve included 40 poems too to remind you that in the cookies of motherhood, you’re the chocolate chips. Truth be told: we love you, we need your love to complete us.
Crazy Sexy Motherhood — because in order to survive this experience, you need to be a little crazy. It’s sexy because it requires a certain sense of confidence from us that we didn’t know we had, and its motherhood or moederliefde — my favorite South African word meaning — mothering type of love. A type of love that can heal the broken hearted while we’re preparing dinner, while we’re contemplating our how to bring more Zen into our life as the kids are destroying the house around us — moederliefde, mothering love, the type of rocket fuel that changes the course of lives.
My qualifications within the field of motherhood…
- Mother of four children, ranging from elementary school to community college.
- Delivered my own baby unintentionally/unplanned.
- Had my last baby in my 40s, unplanned again.
- Still trying to figure out how to raise teenagers, pricky kind of magic!
- When I’m having a bad day, I still feel fulfilled when I look at my beautiful children.
I’m convinced that God made mothers, so that we could experience how perfectly perfect imperfection can be — a divine kind of love that fuels us from our core’s DNA.
Crazy Sexy Motherhood, Life is serious, motherhood should be fun!
HAIKU # 150: TO READ, WHEN WE FEEL UNATTRACTIVE…
Gratitude starts with,
This body, my soul’s home and,
My heart’s greatest art.
H. L. Balcomb
Gratitude remains life’s magical ingredient that turns enough into more than enough, including our perspectives regarding our bodies: our soul’s home and our heart’s art. May we celebrate its purpose in our life with deep gratitude — be blessed. “The human body is the best picture of the human soul” — Ludwig Wittgenstein (Austro-British philosopher).
Speaking on a personal note, I’m so incredibly grateful for this body of mine. It has helped me to grow and to raise four children, ranging from elementary school to community college. All those stretchmarks and little imperfections tell a beautiful story, my story!
P.S. For my voice recordings that I share with the world, I like to read my English stories in Afrikaans with English subtitles, so that my children will always remember my stories in the language that I spoke to them while in utero. The language of their first awareness, my ‘moederliefde’…mothering love.
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