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I think what it all comes down to is love. Who do you love, and who loves you, how much do you love them and do you know how good it really feels to be loved by someone, do you recognize the difference, has someone shown you so much love that you are able to love others that much and know the difference.

There ain't suppose to be so much discussin of "how well am I doing it or am I doing it enough". Moms just used to be crazy about their kids and wanted nothing else more than to be with them all the time, and when they where not with them they where thinking of them constantly and doing things for them while they waited for their returns. That is/was love and they way it used to work I think most of the time.

But a percentage of hearts have grown cold for different reasons and they do not care, are not able to love, don't know or realize that they are not even "doing" it right, and it is not cause the children are unloveable.

Love is a decision, not just a feeling, and in this day and age with SO many distractions parent HAVE TO work even harder at not allowing themselves to be distracted from LOVING their children, they decide to love, decide to turn off the tv, skip the women's selfish magazines, skip answering the phone and all the women in the neighborhood who would love to entice you to coffee clutch or whatever, hang out, and avoid the kids and husband. Kids just want you with them, that is it, nothing else,

When my siblings and I were little, my parents went on a few Colorado ski vacations without us. They were conference getaways for my dad's job, and we kids weren't yet ready for taking on The Rockies. A very sweet old farm wife stayed with us and cooked AWESOME meals. But we missed our mom so much...we would go in her closet and smell her clothes and cry....