A Day in the Life of a Mother.

I have always been a "to do" list kind of person.  Where I measured my day based on how many things I did on my "to do" list.  After I gave birth, my "to do" list went out the window.  There were days my husband would come home and ask, "What did you do today?"  And in tears I'd answer, "I took a shower!"  Of course I did much more than that.  I diapered and breastfed every hour on the hour.  But for some reason, it did not feel like that was good enough.  It wasn't anything on my "to do" list.

My friend Janet posted this article on Facebook, which I am sharing.  It enlightens what a mother does daily.  Here is a clip of this article.  They might not be things on the "to do" list, but they are important.

Motherhood
By Rachel Jankovic
Full article: http://www.desiringgod.org/blog/posts/motherhood-is-application

If I had to pick one word to describe motherhood, I think that word would be “transforming.”

The days of a busy mother are made up of millions of transformations. Dirty children become clean, the hungry child fed, the tired child sleeping. Almost every task a mother performs in the course of a normal day could be considered a transformation. Disorder to order, dirty clothes to clean, unhappy children to peaceful, empty fridge to full. Every day we fight against disorder, filth, starvation, and lawlessness, and some days we might almost succeed. And then, while we sleep, everything unravels and we start again in the morning — transforming.

Days of these little cycles add up and suddenly you see a big transformation. A nursing infant has become a boy on a bicycle, a baby bump has grown into a toddler, and children have been changed into brothers and sisters.

Then there is the kind of transformations that we do — not because we work at it, but because we were created to do it. You eat your lunch, and your body transforms it into nourishment for a baby. Taking something too big for an infant, and still finding a way to feed them with it — with the goal of growing them up to do it themselves.

Pregnancy and nursing are only a small part of a child’s life though — and this cycle is clearly not only a physical one. It is the spiritual cycle of food that is so much more important, and so much less talked about. Christian mothering is a constant cycle of nourishment — both physical and spiritual.