Happy Mother's Day

To all the mother's out there:

Thank you for permanently altering your body to birth an infant that looked more monkey or alien than you would have anticipated. For enduring hemorrhoids, clogged milk ducts, mastitis, and thrush. Thank you for the sleepless nights that morph into interrupted sleep that will last until our children leave the house. For putting your wants, desires, and often fashion and hair styles on the back burner. Thank you for wiping boogers, kissing owies, changing diapers, wiping poopy butts, snuggling hurt feelings, being the rock when another kid hurts your kid and having the restraint to not kill them. For letting go when you needed to, even when it rips your heart out.

Who would have known that you would have become expert artists, cooks, budgeters, nurses, scheduler, cleaner, referee, therapist, fort maker, driver, and doing all of it while constantly multitasking and planning with at least one kid hanging on you every step of the way.

For Mothers Day, know that the only people who truly get it and appreciate what you do are other mothers. So from one mother to another, thank you for all you do.