All you give has not gone unnoticed, mama.
Your body is exhausted. You carry your little ones in your body, on your body, emptying your strength to preserve theirs.
Your thoughts are in knots. Your keys are under your husband’s hat on the hook by the door, and you can’t find them for a week.
You are tested to the far limits of your sanity. You wake, and feed, and pat, and bounce, and rock, at the same time longing for sleep as you are heartstruck with love for this little life who needs you.
You are used up. Your little ones use you for emotional shelter, as a sounding board to test their newest joke, as a trampoline and kissing booth and a safe place to land, and that’s after they’ve grown past the age when they use you to regulate their very breath.
You are needed.
And to be needed is proof of your entanglement in relationship, the messy world of family. Yes, your little ones’ need for you is their truest expression of love.
All you give has not gone unnoticed, mama.
Your little ones need you.
