My aunt Kathie gave me my Grandma Barb's Bible after she passed away and her things had been sorted through. I feel so privileged. It's just such an honor to get to read all her notes and pieces of papers she chose to fill the pages. This particular essay, that she must have deemed very important, is my favorite thing that I found.
It's entitled, This is for the mothers...
(here is excerpt from it)
What makes a good Mother anyway? Is it patience? Compassion? Broad hips? The ability to nurse a baby, cook dinner, and sew a button on a shirt, all at the same time? Or is it in the heart? Is it the ached you feel when you watch your son or daughter disappear down the street, walking to school alone for the very first time? The jolt that takes you from sleep to dread, from bed to crib at 2 A.M. to put your hand on the back of a sleeping baby? The panic, years later, that comes again at 2 A.M. when you just want to hear their key in the door and know they are safe again in your home? Or the need to flee from wherever you are and hug your child when you hear news of a fire, a car accident, a child dying?
The emotions of motherhood are universal and so our thoughts are for young mothers stumbling through diaper changes and sleep deprivation...and mature mothers and stay-at-home mothers. Single mothers and married mothers. Mothers with money, mothers without. This is all of you...for all of us..Hang in there. In the end we can only do the best we can. Tell them every day that we love them. And PRAY.
"Home is what catches you when you fall - and we all fall."
I mean seriously, I had goosebumps re-typing that, not only because those words are so true and encouraging, but because my very Grandma too felt the same feelings that I do as a mother. It's such a special bond.
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