Happy Mother's Day Slavic Christian mamas
Motherhood is:
Laughing with your children until you’re crying
Crying because you’re overwhelmed with responsibilities
It’s feeling sadness as you think about them not needing you one day
It’s excitement as you dream about their future
It’s frustrating sleepless nights
It’s a transformed brain and body
It’s postpartum depression, anxiety, and hormonal rollercoasters
It’s rebuilding your identity beyond being their caregiver
It’s learning to reconnect with your spouse
It’s setting boundaries and limits
It’s disciplining and getting push back
Showing the love of Christ instead of preaching it
It’s entrusting your children with responsibilities to foster family values
It’s healing your inner child, so your past trauma stops with you
It’s validating their feelings to build a secure sense of self
It’s about teaching instead of coddling
It’s asking your spouse for help when you thought you could do it by yourself
It’s relying on God daily for love, self-control, patience, wisdom, and grace
It’s modeling self-regulation to get them through their challenging moments
It’s about building them up and pulling them close, even when their behavior disappoints you
It’s about being intentional with your children instead of giving them a screen when they act up
It’s about connecting with other mamas to have a support system instead of choosing self-isolation
It’s taking your thoughts captive instead of repeating the destructive messages that were spoken to you when you struggled
It’s about praying and nursing through the night when they are teething and can’t sleep
It’s about cuddling when they need comfort and reassurance of your love
It’s learning to give yourself grace for making mistakes when you try to raise them perfectly
It’s learning to trust others to help so you can go to the gym or on a date with your spouse
It’s about creating new routines to help them feel stable
It’s about creating memories as a family of 3, 4, 5, and beyond
It’s about deciding what to invest in and making healthy financial decisions so they can learn to do the same
It's learning how to take care of yourself when your baby is struggling and your spouse is at work
It’s about engaging in self-care and healing your body when all you want to do is sleep
It’s about making good choices nutritionally so your children can follow your example as they grow
It's teaching grandparents how to interact with your children in ways they didn’t know how with their own
Learning how to be intimate with your spouse when your hormones aren’t on board
Sacrificing your time, freedom, and energy for the growth of theirs
It’s about loving them as you’ve learned to accept the Father’s love
It’s about raising the next generation of prophets, parents, spouses, teachers, worshippers, children of the King, business owners, preachers, leaders, heavenly Kingdom expanders, healers, etc.
It’s about spreading God’s Kingdom through the tiny souls that He entrusted you with
Happy Mother’s Day to every champion who is trying her best daily. You matter more than you know