This - #mothersday Repost from @emilypfreeman using @RepostRegramApp - Motherhood is both miracle and madness. It’s wonder and weariness. It’s question marks and false starts and always moving the finish line.
Here’s to you, dear mama—the newest one, the most experienced one, the one who is still waiting as well as the one who doesn’t think of yourself as mother at all but you mother us all in your own way.
Here’s to you.
▫️with the tired eyes, the impossible schedule, and the sour milk smell all over your clothes.
▫️with the PBS cartoons in the background, eating a handful of goldfish and calling it lunch, with the toddler who just learned the word mine and won’t stop secreting bodily fluids from all of their orifices.
▫️who negotiates bedtimes and snack times with a special kind of finesse, the likes of which Wall Street and Washington have never seen.
▫️ who leaves work early to pick up ginger ale and saltines for his upset tummy and digging through the trash for the accidentally discarded lovey.
▫️who buys poster board at the only open drug store at 11 pm because someone forgot to mention that science fair project.
▫️who is raising them up all by yourself, doing the job of two parents with the energy of half of one.
▫️who prays for their friendships, plays in the backyard, buys shoes again.
Here’s to you who prays in the darkness, longs for connection, hopes for the future, and always wants what’s best.
Here’s to you, dear mama, who no longer has children in your house but holds them in your heart, who leaves the light on with backdoors open wide and warm arms open wider.
Here’s to you – sisters, aunties, grandmas, and friends – who do the mother work as you listen, cheer, help, and walk with children in ways only you can do.
Here’s to you who longs for the children you don’t yet have or the children you now only hold in your heart.
Here’s to your courage, your creativity, and your faith. Here’s to your strength and your gumption. I raise my coffee mug to you.
Here’s to you, mothers everywhere. You are exquisite.
