But... it makes sense. And for as much as I'd like to be a more eloquent with explaining how it all works itself out, I can't. And so I'm going to defer to something someone else wrote about mother's day today because she is someone (unlike me) who has a real way with words. Thank you, Rebecca Woolf of Girl's Gone Child for telling it like it really is.
"To the keepers of the band-aids with trains in purse pockets. To the bedtime story-tellers, shirt menders, coat checks. To the dawn-patrol chiefs and the bad-day fixers and the peacemakers in the play room. To the hand-holders and the owwie kissers and the stained-dress wearers and those who wake first and sleep last. To the toy car fixers and the hosts of tea-parties and nights of stargazing in the yard. To the wait-up-all-nighters and try-not-to-worriers and the nurturers of passions all - to the time tellers, memory collectors, masters of tucking in bed-sheets."To the music-makers with bottle shakers and the fight-for-what-is-righters and those who watch for fingers before they close car doors. For the lunch packers and the show-and-tell reminders and the tear-wipers who open their beds to tiny folks with monsters in their dreams."To the book-readers and the homework helpers and the lovers of freckles behind knees. To the back-scratchers, rule-makers-sometimes-breakers and those whose laps have no vacancies..."Whether you have children, take care of children, plan to someday have children of your own: Happy Mother's day. Thank you for teaching and loving and guiding and caring and working and sharing and supporting."Thank you (as my mother always says) for holding the umbrellas over the heads of our future. You win."
Rebecca said it best above and below is my version of all that she has said already... (This one's for you, Grammy! Thank you so much for letting us share such a special day with you!)...
Happy Mother's day to one and all!
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