Thank Goodness

Thank goodness for friends, amazing moms, like Jamie.  She captures real life at One Blessed Lady and makes you laugh out loud while you read, sometimes even snort.  And she stopped by today to splash us moms with some encouragement.   

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I was on the phone the other day with a friend talking about a recent diagnosis that my younger daughter needs vision therapy.  My friend asked how we realized that there was an issue and I described some of the signs that led me to make an appointment with our optometrist.  In the middle of this conversation, my friend says, “Thank goodness for mamas.”

I thought, “Well, that’s kinda weird.  I’m just doing what any other mother in this situation would do.”

And then it hit me. 

Yes!  Thank goodness for mamas everywhere!

Without mamas, the toilet paper would still sit on top of the empty roll, the milk jug would always be empty and people would be dropping like flies from the scurvy due to a lack of fruit in their diets.

Thank goodness for mamas!

Your job, my job, our job is so incredibly important, especially when it doesn’t feel like it.  The days go on endlessly and, at times, without the all important recognition that we crave.

English muffin pizzas are consumed, laundry magically appears clean and ready to go, grocery shopping done, doctor’s appointments made and rides to and from events are taken care of, all without a thought from anyone else.  Field trip forms are filled out, movies censored, stories read.  Cuddles are given, diapers changed and prayers heard, lessons taught, children trained.

Yes, thank goodness for mamas.

You are doing a job that is bigger than you are.  And yet, you’re doing it.  Day in and day out through the murky trenches of  laundry, chauffeuring, kissing, washing, loving.

Can you hear me applauding you?

This job might seem little, insignificant, exhausting, uninspiring.

But it’s a rather lovely thing, this momentous, heart-wrenching, heart-soaring thing you’re doing.

They will look back and call you blessed.
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And as always, I would be crazy honored to have you link up with momma notes.  I jot some on Mondays, but you can link up any day of the week (I get the momma, filled to to the brim, schedules)   Just mom.  Sharing our notes.  Creating a melody.