- Stay up late to wash clothes
- Get up early to make school lunches
- Study higher math because you want to be able to help with homework
- Pretend ignorance so your child can be a teacher
- Listen to problems, but don’t always offer solutions
- Bandage cuts
- Kiss boo-boos
- Hug away blues
- Assign chores
- Secretly redo chores in the middle of the night
- Read bedtime stories without falling asleep
- Fall asleep while reading bedtime stories
- Share family history
- Watch kid shows
- Push aside personal wants for the sake of your child
And the millions of other things mothers do each and every day. Your hard work makes little humans into the best kind of big humans.
You have the MOST IMPORTANT JOB ON THE PLANET. And the greatest!
Happy Mother’s Day!
