a little puppet that I gave to Anna yesterday for Mother's Day
because she is such a wonderful mama to Poppy....
"What I know now is that almost every woman mothers,
in one way or another. I guess I used to think it was an all-at-once thing,
that you go to the hospital a woman and come out a mother, like going through a
car wash with a dirty car and coming out with a clean one. But now that I am a mother, what is
very clear to me is that I’ve been mothered by a whole tribe of women, some who
had children of their own, and some who didn’t. I thank God for each one of them, and thank them for
mothering me when I needed it, and for giving me such a rich variety of images
for what it means to be a mother. And also now that I am a mother, I understand
what Mother’s Day is about: it’s about looking through our lives and
recognizing the act of mothering everywhere we see it, and more than that,
recognizing that when any of us mother- when we listen, nurture, nourish,
protect- we’re doing sacred work." -Shauna Niequist
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