The Ordinary, Unspoken Moments of Motherhood

Dear mamas who are in the middle of raising tiny human life,
and simply feeling like every day is ordinary.

Every day, we do so many things for the tiny humans in our lives, but it also can feel overwhelming.

Exhausting.

Frustrating.

And sometimes, we might not want to do them anymore.
Especially when we do them on repeat.

For the season with newborn babes,
we are up all hours of the day and night,
feeding and soothing and rocking and cleaning,
washing and singing and swaying and more.

For the season with school-age littles,
we make the school lunches,
we wait (and wait) in car rider lines in the morning,
and do our best to participate in the
fundraisers + parades + parties and more,

we hope and pray that this day, this one day
will be the one we get through homework
without a meltdown.

or that our kiddos eat all of their dinner that we cooked for them without hearing "I don't like this today."

and chances are, we won't hear a thank you ...
because these are the ordinary unspoken moments that we experience every single day.

these moments may bring anxiety on our hearts,
wondering if we are doing a good enough job,
wondering if we're doing it right or wrong,

because a mom is "supposed" to love this season.
because another mom "looks like" she is doing it better.

but is she though?
have you asked how she's doing, too?

if you asked another mama how her heart is doing,
you might find she wishes she is in the same season,
not wanting to do all of the ordinary moments
day in and day out anymore.

wishing she could just sleep in again,
or that she also didn't have to make lunches anymore.

but those days will come again, too.

and they'll arrive suddenly,
on a day you don't expect it,
and they'll arrive with their own set of unspoken moments, too.

one day,
perhaps for some of us sooner than later,

you’ll miss not making the lunches.
you’ll miss getting to give them one more kiss as they hop out of your car for school that day,
or the conversations that take place around the dinner table each day.

you’ll miss not rocking them back to sleep at 2am,
you’ll miss washing the tiniest of socks ever made.

so mama,
what would it look like to be
grateful for those ordinary unspoken moments,
the ones in your specific season?

Because those ordinary unspoken moments?
they may just become some of the favorite memories and moments in both your life,
and the life of the tiny humans you're raising, too.