Happy Mother's Day, all you mothers!
Happy nausea, shortness of breath, needing to pee every five minutes, heartburn, stretch marks, permanent tummy softness, permanent rib expansion, and let's not discuss labor and delivery.
Happy doing it again a year or two or three or more later.
Happy not knowing why they're letting you just take the baby home from the hospital when you have no qualifications whatsoever and probably can't be trusted to do anything right.
Happy on-the-job training.
Happy worrying that the baby isn't breathing.
Happy waking the baby up checking.
Happy feeling like a Reader's Digest joke about motherhood.
Happy worrying that you don't love the baby.
Happy worrying that you no longer love your husband because you love the baby so much.
Happy thinking you'll go insane.
Happy thinking you already have.
Happy cleaning up poop.
Happy cleaning up barf.
Happy not minding it as much when it belongs to your own child.
Happy still gagging.
Happy feeling like you're doing everything wrong.
Happy feeling like you're figuring things out.
Happy feeling like no, you're still doing everything wrong.
Happy wondering if you should be worrying more.
Happy wondering if you should be worrying less.
Happy wondering if there are things you don't know you're supposed to be worrying about.
Happy toddler years.
Happy teenage years.
Happy first day of school, waving goodbye, crying all the way home, fretting all day.
Happy first day back the next year, thanking god the summer is over.
Happy crayon drawings all over the refrigerator.
Happy finger prints all over the walls.
Happy learning more about cleaning supplies than you ever wanted to know, between this and the whole poop/barf thing.
Happy never being able to hear bad news about children again.
Happy feeling like you have an automatic bond with all other mothers.
Happy worrying about dentist bills, orthodontist bills, glasses, sport fees, new clothes.
Happy investing in the future of no one you'd rather spend money on.
Happy still wishing there was more money and that children didn't use up so much of it.
Happy crying at weddings. Happy crying at births.
Happy moving up from mom to grandma. Happy watching it start over again.
Happy Mother's Day.
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21 comments:
awwwww! that is wonderful!!!
happy mother's day to you too!
hope your day was a great one!
I hope you felt the love- here's wishing you all of those good things you mentioned, and none of the bad stuff! (Though the newborn stuff is probably unavoidable. And let's not even talk about the permanent stomach softness.)
that was beautiful. thank you.
Happy happy to you!
I cry so much more at weddings, graduations, band concerts, baptisms...than I did before kids. It's amazing how pregnancy opened those tear ducts.
I hope your Mother's Day is wonderful!!!
Happy Mother's Day!
Happy Mother's Day!
That was beautiful, Swistle. Thank you.
Happy Mother's Day to you, too. Times five.
Great post! Happy Mother's Day!
"Happy feeling like a Reader's Digest joke about motherhood."
It was all fabulous, but that line? If I ever meet you, I am going to kiss you for that line. With tongue. You have been warned.
"Happy thinking you'll go insane.
Happy thinking you already have."
Love it,
Also, happy feeling like you are all alone, then looking at blogs and seeing many women in the same boat.
Happy Mom's day to you too!
Happy Mother's Day!
L.O.V.E.D. IT!
Happy Mother's Day back atcha.
Well said. And happy mother's day to you, too!
Maggie
Happy Mother's Day to you too! Hope your day is filled with much happiness. You're a terrific gal and a capable Mom.
Happy Mother's Day! Hope you had a great one!
You have probably heard about this already, but just wanted to butt in with the fact that the National Marrow Registry is having a Mothers Day special through May 21st and registering is FREE. I know you had discussed this in a previous post and for some the cost may have been a barrier.
http://www.marrow.org/
I signed up this morning!
Tessie: THANK YOU--I hadn't heard of it, and I'm doing a post about it right this second.
You should make a new line of cards for Hallmark using this material!
lovely! happy to you too.
"Happy never being able to hear bad news about children again.
Happy feeling like you have an automatic bond with all other mothers."
The whole thing is GREAT. True. Wonderful. You are a great writer. That above line really struck me, though. It was something I never knew I would feel pre-motherhood! Also the readers digest part...very true!
I'm way late commenting on this.
Thank you.
Beautiful, honest post.
That was beautiful. That should be cross-stitched somewhere.
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