All praise be to Allah for making this possible. Yesterday, I received a good news. In the email, it informed that I am listed in The Top 200 Mom Blogs by Feedspot (https://blog.feedspot.com/mom_blogs/). Alhamdulillah. Although I thought I had written a lot on topics like teaching and learning, I reserved a slight confidence that I have been writing better lately simply because of the day-to-day activities I have been doing as a mother, thus the topics of motherhood keep coming in this blog.
The opportunity to be in The Top 200 Mom Blogs with other mothers is definitely a great feeling. I am new to motherhood when I married my then-single-father husband early this year, so stepping up to the duty along with other biological moms and single biological moms definitely touched my heart. It confides me that whoever we are, we are all mothers for as long as the duty is in our hands.
….it is an honour to be listed in The Top 200 Mom Blogs within a short time and most importantly, it is a great relief seeing that I now have support from another 199 mothers all over the world…
As I scrolled down to look at where I was ranked, I bumped into a few single-mother blogs. Oh, God! I had never been a single mother but divorce once made me single and alone. I silently prayed for all these mothers who are not only strong for themselves and children but had reached out through their blogs to strengthen others. These are seriously marvelous people whom had made me feel loved by their show of support. Then, I told myself, perhaps being a step-mother is not as demanding as being a single mother. In a way, I was convincing myself when I said that. At least I am not playing my roles alone.
Speaking of loneliness and challenges, I remember one of the earliest days of mine as a new step-mother. Parenting is really a teary and worthy journey at the same time. There are so much things that trigger your glands to drop the tears yet there are so much more sweet things worth standing up for. After two years of blogging here, I guess my sharing on 5 truth about step-mothering is the best entry I ever wrote by far. Although I whispered another truth about how I felt on Mother’s Day in another entry, I am going to share very soon the differences I observe between working and stay-at-home moms in which I experienced it as both a daughter and a mother myself.
As I said earlier, it is an honour to be listed in The Top 200 Mom Blogs within a short time and most importantly, it is a great relief seeing that I now have support from another 199 mothers all over the world. Thanks Feedspot for coming across my blogs and get me listed. As usual, if there are any good books about motherhood and parenting that you would like to share with me, my suggest-a-book button is ever ready for you to drop a title or two.
