• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • Home
  • About
  • Media
  • Contact

everyday Ann

living the ordinary seeing the extraordinary

in Adoption, Motherhood · May 7, 2015

They Call Me Mommy

For so many years Mother’s Day was always a day I somewhat dreaded. It always just seemed to serve as a reminder of what I didn’t have, what I was lacking and the longing to fill the emptiness. When the mothers were asked to stand at church for a blessing I clenched my teeth and fought back the tears from streaming.

This year we will celebrate Mother’s Day as a family of four. Instead of tears of sorrow there will be tears of joy. In gratitude for the two amazing boys who have given me the name mommy! Who have filled my heart with a new love and joy beyond anything I could have imagined. Who have called me to a deeper love and service, even at all hours of the night.

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

The honor, privilege and blessing continues to humble me. The road was not easy and the cross not light, but I would not trade any of it for the moments I share with them every single day. They are truly a gift!!

Yet I cannot let this Mother’s Day pass by without thinking of and honoring the women who gave my sons life. The women who first loved them and were the first to look in their beautiful brown eyes.

As much as I am beyond grateful to hear two little voices call me mommy, a part of me feels for those who were their first. Not more than a day passes where I don’t pray for them and wonder how they are doing. I grieve for the loss caused by brokenness and sin in our world that has not allowed families to live as God has intended.

Yet because of loss our roads have crossed and I can do nothing more than thank God for allowing me to be their mommy. To hold them tightly and shower them with a love so deep and so wide.

To the women who first held us, the women who help guide us and the women who inspire us along the way. To the women who long to be a mother, the women who have lost a child, the women who heroically choose life and entrust that life to someone else. May you all have a most blessed and joyous Mother’s Day!

Share this:

  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)

Related

Previous Post: « Taste of Summer
Next Post: 3 Under $30 »

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Barbara says

    May 8, 2015 at 2:36 pm

    Cassie:

    Congrats to you and your hubby for taking on the task of motherhood. There is no harder job to do than that one. There is also no greater joy in life than motherhood. I wish you the best of everything in raising your sons. Happy Mother’s Day to a gracious and loving mom. Have a great day that day with all its new meaning.
    God bless, Barbara

    Reply
    • Everyday Ann says

      May 11, 2015 at 9:36 pm

      Thank you! I could not agree more, there is a new joy in my heart that I have never experienced before now that I am a mom.

      Reply
  2. Sandra Najiy says

    May 8, 2015 at 3:48 pm

    My daughter passed in 1993 at the age of 25. She loved her son Ryan so much and I know it was hard for her to leave him, she had cancer. I raised him from 4 years of age and he is now 26. I always felt so bad when he was in elementary school and the class made gifts for their mothers on holidays. and his hand made gifts were for me, his grandmother. I know he loves me as if I were his mother, but I never let him forget his mother Raquel. Happy Mothers Day to all mothers and grandmothers who are raising mother-less children. God Bless them all!

    Reply
    • Everyday Ann says

      May 11, 2015 at 9:34 pm

      I am sorry to hear of your loss. May you be truly blessed for filling that role! Happy Mother’s Day!!

      Reply
  3. felsi says

    May 11, 2015 at 12:44 am

    Hi Cassie,

    Happy Mothers day.Let our Mother Mary accompany us and guide us.

    Reply
    • Everyday Ann says

      May 11, 2015 at 9:31 pm

      Thank you. Amen, could not be more true!

      Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest

Subscribe to Everyday Ann

Missed Something?

Categories

Archives

I wish I could go back in time and tell myself at I wish I could go back in time and tell myself at 23 to trust and to not worry. The journey of infertility and loss will be long and painful, but you are not forgotten. 
.
To tell myself at 25 to not lose hope, God sees you and you are incredibly loved by your Creator. To continue to pray despite the discouragement and constant heartache.
.
To tell myself at 27 that infertility does not define you. You are not less, because of what you perceive to be lacking. You are whole, complete and beautiful with or without a baby on your hip.
.
To tell myself at 30 that God's timing is not ours and He has an incredible plan. A plan to fulfill your heart's desires. A plan far greater than your timeline. The wait is never wasted.
.
#infertility #infertilityawareness #infertilityawarenessweek #havehope #momofmany #bigfamily #adoption #rainbowbabies #adoptivemom #ourstory #catholicmom #christianliving  #motherhood #catholicfamily #femininegenius #thecatholicwoman
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Here They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Here's to one thousand of them.
.
#familiesdonthavetomatch #siblings #momofmany #bigfamily #adoption #adoptivemom #blessedbyadoption #infertility #rainbowbaby #thisisfamily #blacklivesaresacred #oldestandyoungest #catholicmom #catholiclife #christianliving #catholicfamily
Do you have a good morning routine? It has taken m Do you have a good morning routine? It has taken me almost six years and five kids later to establish, put into practice and recognize the importance of a good morning routine. Let this be said, it doesn’t always go perfectly or as planned, because children and motherhood are always fluid.
.
I have found that in taking the time to be intentional about the habits and routine that I do in the morning sets up the day, puts me in the right frame of mind and allows me to be better focused on the tasks ahead.
.
Writing about it on the blog today everydayann.com, link in my bio. ➡️
.
#goodmorning #morningroutine #motherhood #thisismotherhood #motherly #smallvictories #momofmany #catholiclife #catholicmom #bigfamily #femininegenius #catholicwoman #raisingsaints #blogger #catholicblogger
Joy. Do I really have it? Am I joyful during the t Joy. Do I really have it? Am I joyful during the trials and crosses, the small ones and big ones alike. The spilled milk for the third time that day, being woken up seven times in one night and piles of laundry. The uncertainty of jobs, the loss of loved ones and sickness. Through it all do I maintain joy? 
.
In those moments where I feel like it is being robbed from me, what is my response. Looking to myself is not enough and looking to the world only brings more confusion. The only answer is to look up. Look up to a God who is good. A God who loves infinitely and is forever faithful no matter what may come. To look up and remember happiness is fleeting, but true joy comes from knowing Christ. 
.
#scripture #bibleverse #reflection #joy #christianliving #motherhood #christianmom #catholiclife #catholicliving #catholicwoman #momlife #catholicmom #bissisterhood
Instagram vs reality, swipe for the live action of Instagram vs reality, swipe for the live action of trying to get five kids to take a picture.
.
This picture came after the 18 month old screamed and flailed the entire second half of Mass. I left feeling defeated and my husband reminded me that in it there is found grace.
.
#sunday #easterpeople #church #bigfamily #momlife #momofmany
#raisingsaints #catholiclife #catholicfamily #catholicmom #liturgicalliving #thisismotherhood #catholicwomen #christianliving #alleluia
Happy Easter!! He is Risen, Alleluia, Alleluia!! . Happy Easter!! He is Risen, Alleluia, Alleluia!!
.
Celebrating for the entire Octave and hoping to get a family picture by the end of it!
.
#easter #alleluia #heisrisen #easterpeople #christianliving #catholicfamily #liturgicalliving #catholiclife #catholicmom
How do you explain death to a young child. The pas How do you explain death to a young child. The passing, the permanency and the pain. All of it is empty, meaningless and morbid without the hope of the Resurrection. Without belief in the salvific act of Christ, death defeated and the hope of eternal life, our suffering is in vain and none of it makes sense. But because of faith and saving grace we know how the story ends. 
.
O death, where is your sting? 1 Corinthians  15:55
.
#hope #faith #eternallife #christwins #reflection #mysteryoffaith #resurrection #christianliving #catholiclife #catholicmom #catholicfamily
Just a short two weeks ago I sat at my mother in-l Just a short two weeks ago I sat at my mother in-law's bedside and read to her Psalm 23. Last evening God called her home. This morning as I opened the daily Mass readings there it was, Psalm 23.
.
So many words I want to say, to describe an incredible woman but for now my heart just sits with the memories, the moments and the last words spoken to me.
.
#eternalrest #gratefulforthememories #lovedones #jesusitrustinyou #family #catholicfamily
St. Joseph, pray for us. Patron of workers, father St. Joseph, pray for us. Patron of workers, fathers, families, travelers, the sick, the dying, the Universal Church, married people, unborn children, immigrants, house hunters, carpenters, expectant mothers, children. Turn to him in your need.
.
Happy Solemnity of St. Joseph! 
.
#stjoseph #domesticchurch #raisingsaints #liturgicalliving #catholiclife #catholicfamilylife #saints #catholicmom
Follow on Instagram

My Book

Footer

Subscribe to Everyday Ann

Enter your email address, would love to have you join me!

Copyright © 2021 · everyday Ann · Design by Studio Mommy

loading Cancel
Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
Email check failed, please try again
Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.