Motherhood is

amazing, belly laughs, crazy making, dirty, enlightening, frightening, gross, humorous, isolating, joyous, kind, learning, madness, nocturnal. obscene, permanent, quietless (yeah I made that word up but you know it's true), reality, smiles, thankless, unique, vicious, wonder, x-treme (yeah I cheated but how many good x words do you know?), yucky, and zany.

Motherhood is a job from which there is no vacation. It is not glamorous and it is not always pleasant. Motherhood is training your adult brain to think like like a child's so that you can see the world the way they do. It is your son running up to you with crap between his toes (who knows how it got there) whining because he is dirty and the running off and jumping on the couch before you have a chance to do anything about it. Being a mother can be lonely and loud. It can be overwhelming and under stimulating. The one thing that motherhood always is, is a miracle. To look in the eyes of your child and think about everything it took to bring this person into being, whether you carried your child or someone else did think about how tiny and sweet that baby was when you met and you thought there was no way you could ever be angry at that sweet child and how in a few short years they turn into little people with their own thoughts and personalities. Imaginations that run wild and ideas that get them into trouble. It's hard to remember sometimes that a child's parents are their world. That to our children we are everything they need. Safety and love, boo boo fixers and food getters.

It may be the most thankless job, but it is also the most rewarding.