What was it like for you to become a mother?

I thought I was so prepared.  I wasn't.  I also seemed to become a worse mom the more children and the older they got.  Becoming a mother was a fulfillment of a lifelong desire, though.  One of my earliest memories is dreaming of being a mom.  I really never wanted to be anything else but a wife and mother.  I have loved mothering.  The thing that makes me the happiest though is that our daughters are better mothers than I ever hoped to be.