Just thought I would give some insight into why I chose "The Real Mom" as my blog title. Considering I only gave birth to 3 of the 6 children that I am currently raising, this is an expression heard in my home often. "Is my real mom coming to my game?" "Is my real mom coming to get me?" "Can I call my real Mom?" After some time, you start to think you are made out of plastic or spare metal parts, considering it is never you that is coined as the real mom. I have had a great deal of time to ponder the term and what it means to ACTUALLY be their "real mom". Is it birthright? Is it claim to half of their DNA? Is it carrying them for nine months?
Where I have found that these things make you a person who has mothered a child, they do not make you their real mom. I have come up with short list of criteria that I believe makes me the real mom in the case of all my children.
1. If you are the 24 hour on duty throw up cleaner upper
2. If you have painfully read with your kindergartner more than 100 times
3. If you fill out the hours of paperwork to get them registered to school
4. If you pray with them before bed every night
5. If you are the one comforting them after nightmares and kissing their ouchies when they fall
6. If you drag them all to the dentist every 6 months
7. If you make their favorite desert for their birthday every year
8. If you know their friends and meet with their teachers at school
9. If you wash their clothes and their backsides regularly
10. If you discipline and love them consistently and equally
11. If you lay them at the altar on a regular basis
12. If you buy their school clothes and supplies for the first day of school
13. If you are up at 6 every morning every day to make their breakfast, pick out their clothes, pack their backpacks,do their hair and tie their shoes up
14. If you tell them they are the most amazing and beautiful kids in the world every day
15. If you get the very best of them and the very worst of them
I say these things with a grateful heart. The reality that God chose me for them and them for me is so humbling and they remind me of Gods grace each day. It is the greatest blessing in the world to be their "real mom".
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