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There are no words to adequately express the tender\nfeelings I have toward my Mother on Mother\u2019s Day. She gave birth to and raised\nten children, doing so much of the time alone because my Dad\u2019s job required him\nto travel significantly. Not only that but my Dads work required our family be\nmoved every few years to a different state which meant she was packing up the\nhouse and ten kids and having to switch all of us to brand new schools every\nfew years (keep in mind she was doing that with kids spread out in preschool,\nelementary school, jr high and high school with those moves…and she was\nusually pregnant while doing so. I can\u2019t\neven imagine juggling all the things she had to do and yet she was always there\nto help us all with our homework, she had our school lunches packed, she had dinner on the table\nand when we were young she would always take time to kneel by our bed with each\nof us every night to help us say our prayers and then she\u2019d sing us a lullaby\nsong she wrote called \u201cMy Little Girl Go To Sleep\u201d and for my brothers, \u201cMy\nLittle Boy Go To Sleep\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I only gave birth to two children and I remember how\noverwhelming it felt many days when my kids were young just trying to keep up\nwith two, so I can\u2019t even begin to fathom how my Mom did it with ten. All I\nknow is the woman is a saint and I\u2019m quite certain she\u2019ll be given an automatic\npass into heaven for all she\u2019s a done as a Mother. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Today I honor my own Mother. But I also want to express gratitude to all of the other Mothers in the world who sacrifice so much of yourselves for your children. Motherhood is often a thankless job – people don’t give mothers validation for changing diapers, or cleaning up throw up, or helping with homework, or staying up late at night waiting for a teenager to return home. In fact their kids often call them \u201cthe worst\u201d for making them do chores, and tell them \u201cyou\u2019re not as much fun as Dad\u201d when they make them do homework, and you never hear kids going around singing their mother’s praise for ensuring they have clean underwear and clothes to wear each day. Is it any wonder that as a mother you often feel like a complete failure no matter how hard you try?? But you are not a failure…you are anything but….because you were willing to sacrifice of yourself to bring a child into this world, and you love your children with all of your heart and that is what matters. So just keep doing your best because one day those children will have children of their own and they will understand and appreciate all that you’ve done for them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mothers deserve to be celebrated everyday, not just on Mother’s Day, but every day! And I was blessed with the greatest Mother of all! LOVE YOU MOM!!!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n