It Was Mom …

Of all the things I get to do, being a mom is the most difficult and most rewarding. The waking in the middle of the night to a scared child or the mopping up vomit at 4:00 in the morning are reminders that it is my twenty-four hour a day, three hundred sixty-five days a year chosen profession.

There are times it makes my want to pull my hair out. There are times when I laugh so hard that I pee my pants. There are times I lose my patience and my temper and scream. There are times when I want to shout on the roof tops for joy. And there are times when I sink to my knees in despair and beg God to help me do it right because I am just not fit to be a mom and I don’t want to mess these kids up forever.

Through it all I know and have always known since the minute that first baby left my body and was placed in my arms, that this is what I was meant to do. My life’s work is to raise four amazing children in this crazy and somewhat troubling world. My job is MOM.

And I wouldn’t have it any other way.

I hope you’ll enjoy this video that was produced by my two brothers’ company for Mother’s Day. And then go give your mom a heartfelt thank you for doing the hardest job on the planet.

I love you, Mom!

{picture of me and Owlie after I’d removed a sliver from his finger}