What a wonderful way of recounting your life. Motherhood is the best gift given to us, even when kids dont know it :)
Mastitis is horrible, my sister went through a bad bout, but we do it for our children. I had trouble breastfeeding too, but we keep at it until we get it right. We would do anything for them! Our live suddendly becomes theirs and not ours.
Hope you had a wonderful mother's day...although to me, every day is mother's day :)