without the confidence she exemplified i would not have learned the significance of loving myself and in turn teaching my daughter to love herself too through my mom i learned loving yourself is the beginning of all victories 5 things my mother taught me about perfection i recently discovered letters my mother had written on a typewriter no less to a close friend before she became a mother at all they were from her pregnancy with me her first and reflected on how she felt about motherhood as she stood at its threshold my mother my self although my nest is now empty ive found i can reminisce about my kids childhood this mothers day by spritzing these scents from demeter fragrance library which are the next best thing to going back in time in some ways they may actually be better smells like motherhood