What can I say about motherhood?
My favourite quote about being a parent is from the movie “The Way”. After a young boy is caught stealing a backpack, his parent says, “Ah, yes our children are the best and worst of us.”
Being a mother has been the most demanding, painful, disappointing, gut-wrenching and exhausting time of my life… and with adult children my grief still continues.
Being a mother has also been the most comforting, joyful, funny, wonderous, stretching, adventurous, creative and satisfying time of my life… and it still is!
It has been a huge relief to accept that my children’s “best and worst” is what grew me into the best mother I can be.
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