For your Mother’s Day enjoyment, here are my favorite mom facts and quotes modernized with a hashtag:
1. #Detectivework: Silence is golden unless you have kids. Then it is just suspicious.
2. #Taketurns: I can only please one child a day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow doesn’t look good either.
3. #Gimmie: I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.
4. #Reality: When you become a mother you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.
5. #Oopsie: Sometimes I open my mouth and my mother comes out.
6. #Motherhood: Powered by love, sustained by chocolate.
7. #Messy: Behind every mom is load of dishes and a basket of dirty laundry.
8. #Boldtruth: Mother—A person who works sixteen hour days, seven days a week. FOR FREE.
9. #Wornslick: Being a Mom means exhaustion pushes you flat, but love pulls you off the couch.
10. #Fittingrevelation: If you’ve never noticed it before, “MOM” spelled upside down is “WOW.”
Being a mom remains the hardest, the most angst induced, and yet the most rewarding job on the planet. And its easy to be critical of our own mothers—until we become one ourselves. And you realize your own mother loved you fiercely and Did the best she could.
The best she knew how.
The real truth of the matter is— we are not perfect. Never have been, never will be. So we will never have perfect kids. Period. But the grace we must embrace is this—we may be a mess, but we can still be a good mom. We are allowed to be both.
A mother’s hands are never still.
A mother’s feet may never rest.
A mother’s lips issue kisses and caution.
A mother’s arms wrap comfort long.
A mother’s brain whirls overtime.
A mother’s love knows no bounds.
Behind her facade she fumbles and
Fears she is not enough.
Worries her many mistakes are damaging.
And walks overwhelmed with the task of raising confident, competent, Godly children.
But in her heart she knows that no one loves deep, more than she does.
And she knows that somehow, someway, her prayers will sustain them all.
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So we roll out of bed everyday and begin again,
Doing the best we can,
The best we know how.
And as you grasp for footing in the cray cray role of mothering, go to the great encourager. He is the one who will lift you up when motherhood pushes you down and skins your knees.
“The peace of God which surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.” Philippians 4:7
And remember the quote true:
Mother’s hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.
Thank you Mom.