Sunday, May 12, 2013

Repost: To all you Other Mothers

If you've been a reader for a long time, you might recognize this post...I wrote it two years ago...and reposted it last year...and I'm reposting it again this year, because I know how hard Mother's Day can be for some people and I want all you "other mothers" out there to know you are thought of and loved...

So here's to all you amazing Other Mothers...

...I'm thinking of you.

Especially my kids' birthmoms...who gave me the ultimate gift...their most precious treasure...

I'm so glad they're a part of my life and my kids' lives.

I'm thinking of all you other birthmoms out there who get to see or hear from your child...
And I'm thinking of you birthmoms who wonder...where they are and who they've become...

I'm thinking of you who considered adoption and chose to single parent.  And I wonder how that little baby is...

I'm thinking of all you foster moms...

And single moms...

And moms who have angel babies waiting for you in Heaven...
And all you who desperately want to be moms, but aren't yet...

And all you moms who love your children who struggle...
Mother's Day used to be hard for me.  Not just because I didn't have kids...but because I didn't know if I would ever have kids
Seven Eight Nine years ago for Mother's Day, Eric and I told our parents that we had started paperwork to become approved for adoption.  Six Seven Eight years ago, I celebrated my first Mother's Day as a mom.
I.   AM.   SO.   BLESSED. 
If Mother's Day is hard for you...I'm sending a hug...and thinking of you. 


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6 comments:

  1. This is a lovely post. There are truly many ways to be someone's Mother, and that is a position of the highest order.
    Bless you and yours this Mother's Day,

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  2. What a beautiful, wonderful post. I hope you had an amazing Mother's Day.

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  3. Yesterday at church, one of our speakers was a young married woman who has so far been unable to have children. Instead of referring to Mothers' Day, she called it "Mothering Day," because while some women are unable to be mothers, all women can mother. My wife rather liked that idea.

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  4. Yesterday at church, one of our speakers was a young married woman who has so far been unable to have children. Instead of referring to Mothers' Day, she called it "Mothering Day," because while some women are unable to be mothers, all women can mother. My wife rather liked that idea.

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  5. I love this post and have read it a couple times. I am not a Mother, but I am an Aunt to two amazing little boys that I can not imagine my life without.
    I hope that you had an amazing Mother's Day with your family. :)

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  6. Polly, this is a wonderful post, and I can see where you and your family is blessed because of these women. There is a bright side to every situation and there are many times it is very unclear what that bright side is or will be. There are many mother's that make poor choices and the term "train wreck" comes to mind when thinking of a few that I have known in my life. I'm very lucky to have a very loving mother in my life and has taught me even at my tender age of 49 some of the important things in life.

    When I look at Christina, I can see that she is a wonderful mother and put her children before herself. I can only hope and pray that Maddy is the kind of mother that put herself before her children, teaches them the gospel, by showing them how to live gospel rather than just telling them about it.

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