Motherhood

I saw something on Face book today that kinda got to me, this is what it said. :

I am a cook, a housekeeper, a parent, a teacher, a referee, a nanny, a nurse, a handyman, a maid, security and a comforter. I don't get Holiday pay, sick pay or even a day off. I work through the day and even sometimes through the night. I am underpaid and over worked. Now tell me your job is harder than mine. I am a mother.

When I first read this I thought to myself boy can I relate to that. That's my life on a daily basis. Bouncing from one job to another, sometimes doing all of the above at the same time. When your the mother of multiple children you learn how to multitask real quick. And I thought to myself, isn't that what motherhood is all about.

Now I know I will sometimes joke that I didn't really know what I was getting into and if I did I don't think I would have taken the job, but that is not true. I feel blessed to be a mother.
A mother to my four babies, I jokingly tell my husband that yes they are my babies, when he can figure out how to produce life inside his body he can claim them . And all these thing's I read were things I would and will do for the rest of my life. That is what a good mother does. It's what my mother did, what I saw my grandmothers do. I don't know any different. It's how I was raised. It's what I hope to pass on to my daughters, actually all of my children. I want my children to look back at their younger years and think to themselves, man my mom did the best she could for us, she was always there for us. I want them to know that no matter what they do in life I will always love them . there is nothing they could ever do to make me not love them. I may not like it, may not agree with it, but I WILL always, always love them. Every night before bed one of the last things my babies hear from their mom is this, "How much does mommy love you?" And they will say "higher than the sky and deeper than the ocean". I nod my head and repeat it back to them. Because I am a mother. Their mother. And there is nothing I would not do for my babies.