Happy Mother’s Day

To the mothers who haven’t yet heard “I love you,”

To the mothers who do not yet have a name,

To the mothers who know what it is to believe in your child when it seems like no one else does,

To the mothers who are interpreters,

To the mothers who are their child’s voice,

To the mothers who have had to become the expert,

To the mothers who do not take no for an answer,

To the mothers who stay awake every night worrying about what is to come,

To the mothers who never let their child see them cry for them,

It gets better.

“My doctor told me I would never walk again.  My mother told me I would.  I believed my mother.”  – Wilma Rudolph