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Motherhood is…

  • Motherhood is finding crumbs in your coat pockets, pen marks on your jeans and small toy whales in your washing machine.
  • Motherhood is wearing many hats, be it chef, referee, wardrobe department or nurse.
  • Motherhood is getting up and doing it every single day, no matter how much you slept (or didn’t) or your health (or lack of).
  • Motherhood is kitchen discos, sloppy kisses, playing shop and dressing up.
  • Motherhood is also making endless lunches, wiping bottoms, tidying up toys and washing clothes, lots of clothes.
  • Motherhood is glorious glimmers of pure joy nestled within hours and hours of mundanity.
  • Motherhood is feeling your heart sing as you watch your child play and chat to herself, or when they finally conquer their fear.
  • Motherhood is grieving the younger versions of your child who you loved so much and will never see again.
  • Motherhood is trying to get water and vegetables into your child while you exist on Diet Coke and Haribo.
  • Motherhood is buying your child a new wardrobe every season while you’re wearing 5 year old leggings with holes in the crotch.
  • Motherhood is feeling crushingly lonely one minute and touched out and overstimulated the next.
  • Motherhood is conjuring up activities out of thin air like a magician and using all that’s available around you to bring ideas to life.
  • Motherhood is finding them the most annoying beings on the planet, then when they’re asleep cooing over photos of them on your phone.
  • Motherhood is being proud of your child for the tiniest thing, like saying a word properly, while also being sad that you won’t hear them say it again.
  • Motherhood is inventing new swear words to censor what you want to say (fish cakes, sugar cubes and fouch are some of mine).
  • Motherhood is nevertheless muttering “f********ck” under your breath when nothing else will do.
  • Motherhood begins when they are growing inside you and never ends, not even when your child is a mother herself.
  • So to all you mothers who give it all, do it all, aren’t sure if you can actually have it all… You’re doing an amazing job and you are your children’s all

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