embrace it

"I heard lyrics on the radio today from one of my favorite songs that told me "we were born to embrace, not accept it....."
 I think that phrase needs to apply to so many things. To live life with the eyes of a child and fully embrace something. To get excited about it and love it and capture that moment is soooo much cooler than just accepting it. I struggle with this idea. I don't always love going to work because I hate leaving my husband and I would rather snuggle on the couch than run around our unit for 12 hours with screaming babies. I embrace the couch and my husband, I accept my job.  But when I get there, I find that I start to embrace it. Which is weird.  But I am clocked in and I have no choice but to be there to make a living for my family. I am blessed to have the oppertunity to do that and I appreciate that I have a job I get to go to when so many others don't. So when I get there, I usually end up embracing it. Because honestly I can't think of one other thing that I would rather do for a career. I LOVE being a nurse and I LOVE babies and to mix those two together is the coolest thing. So when I am there, I snuggle those babies so hard and swaddle them so tight and play music for them, and get them warm blankies and speak sweetly to them and try to give them the love their mommas would give them if they were there so that baby starts out life feeling loved and well cared for. While taking care of babies is in fact my job.....a baby itself is not a job, it's a child, it's a human being, not a chore (although it feels like one alot lol). So I embrace them not just accept them. Or at least try.
I want to raise my own children the power of embracing life and not just accepting it. and I am not quite sure how to do that. It amazes me that with so much negativity my mother was faced with in the first few years of my life due to court battles, and split familys and custody crap with my dad and stepmom that she managed to stay so positive and loving and how she managed to still embrace life. I don't know if that is just what I picked up on through the eyes of a child but man I felt it, I didn't know alot of the gory details of my childhood until I was older and she told me. Which is a great thing but I appreciate her so much for working so hard not to taint my childhood with the black cloud of negativity. Unfortunately I can't say the same for other vital people in my childhood and their attitude has forever impacted me, not for the good. But, it is not always a good hand that we are dealt and fortunately the one person that was most present in my life taught me that you make the best of any situation good or bad and you move forward and chock everything up as a learning experience and something that makes you a better person. She always used to appologize for what I was going through but kept reminding me how strong I was and what a good person I was and how much these experiences would help me to be an amazing mother, wife, sister, friend and person in the future.  Your most important lessons don't always come from a good experience. Sometimes you learn the most from the worst situations but I feel blessed to be able to have that mentality.  Trust me it isn't always there. Like I've said in previous posts, finding the good and the rainbow in the storm clouds isn't easy for me but the power of self talk is a magical thing. I convince myself it is. and My mother convinces me as well. So my new motto is to embrace it....embrace life, love, relationships, jobs, hardships, challenges, learning lessons and babies. Definitely embrace the babies.