Mom's have to be prepared for everything. Maybe that's why I have so much in my purse and my mini van. There's lots of things to keep life running smoothly. Everything from gum to maxi pads for those things that crop up.
However the one thing that they need the most in every occasion and the one thing that never ceases to rip you apart is your love. I don't think we fully appreciate our own mothers and the very lifeblood they give us until our own has been poured out of our veins and into our children's.
It can leave us hollow and empty but our faith lifts us and carries us on. It is these emergencies of our own, the ones where we are in need of being carried instead of one who carries, that we have to call on a strength greater than our own to get us through.
And remarkably that strength can be found back in our children. As Ethan plays the piano and squeezes me in a tight hug, as Carter shares a joke and rests his taller than me head on my shoulder, as Olivia leaves me a fallen bloom from a flower under my pillow and wants to read me a story:
I find strength.
The Moncur Fam
September 2006 look for a new one this summer
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4 comments:
Beautiful.
Well said.
What a sweet post. So glad your children are there for you. That is one thing I love about kids, you can be scolding them one minute and getting big hugs and kisses the next.
Ditto.
I've said before that it makes me sad for those who choose to not have children. I've never learned more or loved more than I have with just one baby. It is the greatest learning experience I think we can attain on this earth.
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