Mother’s Day Tribute

It’s true – motherhood comes with strings.

While you have exclusive rights to first-ever smiles, rollovers, footsteps, and word mastery, you are also on the hook for midnight feedings, gas attacks, ear infections, and tantrum control. It’s easy to take the unbridled love, the exuberant self-discovery, the academic strides, and the leap into responsible personhood. But along the way you must also endure countless safety hazards, obnoxious coming-of-age lessons, heartbreaking relationship struggles, and an impossible amount of unproductive worry.

As mothers, it is our job to guide, inspire, teach, model, reprimand, encourage, support, and love with all kinds of boundless might. Add to that, we are basically on duty 24-7, and in it for life. Some days it feels like the Motherload is just too heavy to bear. The next it feels like the only thing keeping us afloat.

This Mother’s Day, I urge you to give yourself a great big heartful hug. You may not always do the job well, but I can bet, you are doing your best. Whether you are the mother of toddlers, teens, young adults, or adults with their own offspring, take a moment to celebrate yourself.

Motherhood is really quite a feat. A lifelong endeavour – heartstrings attached.