For the love of moms...

The last several days I have had such a new love for moms.  It's like when you are pregnant and you start to see pregnant women everywhere!  That's how I feel about moms lately.  I feel like everywhere I go, I see moms, empathize with them, feel with them, and share with them...even if there is nothing said or exchanged.  I went to the zoo this week and had a moment of this...there's the strollers, the snacks, the need for a nap, the juggling. A friend also sent me an article written about a mom who used to judge other moms before she had kids...good for my heart and soul and so true!  And this week at the hospital a mom was forced to pick a different home for her precious little one, and I nearly lost it for her.  I fully recognized that the kiddo needed a new, safer place to be, but I could not fathom the thought of it for her.  I've thought about moms who choose to give their child up for adoption...for the  moms that adopt those children as their own...for grandmothers that never see their grandkids.  For the moms out there that never had a mom.  It's overwhelming and beautiful.  Being a mom is like nothing else on this earth.  It is innate and deep, challenging and completely natural...it fills and empties...it changes everything.  I have to say, I love the view from here.  It continues to bless my socks off...bring me closer to my precious Savior...to love deeper...challenges me to put myself out there.  It is by far the most incredible thing I've done second to being a wife.  I'm so thankful for this time I have here on earth to experience this part of the Kingdom. 

On the train at the zoo...Emilynn was dazed by it. :)