Every day I celebrate my motherhood..

[TX Stephanie]

It is not a one day passing hooray!! Each day I get up and strive to "mother" my family as God would have me to do. Some days, I mother the "unmotherable." (is that even a word?) heehee Some days I mother with empathy and other days I mother with much mercy. There are days when I have to mother under some of the most stressful conditions, but I mother as that is what I have been called to do. A mother's teaching never ends. With my older children, my teaching is more of the, "watch how I live and do what I do." Of course, my children are all older now. My youngest is my only "minor" and he will be 16 this summer. My goal was to mother them into adulthood and then release them into the world as responsible adults. This has proven to be more difficult than I expected. I sacrifice my will, my pride, my desires, all to mother my family.

Grandmothering, now that is a joy that is unexplainable!! I go home and see that little face and I cannot be angry at anyone. Today, after along day of work I wil go home and snuggle and love her. I want to be able to do the same with some of my "unmotherable" family members. So I will do the same to all of them today. I will go home and I will snuggle and love all of them. After all, I have my days at not being such a lovable mom either.