Spending so much one-on-one time with my bawling (though still absolutely adorable) nephew helped me to understand a little bit more how insanely hard being a mom must be. I was pretty tired myself when I was watching him- barely getting any sleeping in a boiling hotel room the night before, waking up early to ski that morning, and having just not been sleeping well in general the past few nights had worn me out- but I was just helping on one day and for a few hours. My saintly sister takes care of him everyday... and she helps cook dinner... and she has to wake up if he's fussing a lot and Benjamin is away at class... and she works night shifts multiple times a week at a hospital taking care of sick kids ... and probably has to do a lot of other things that wear her out day, after day, after day. Talk about love!
It's no wonder mothers will do pretty much anything to help their children- they already have done everything for them.
So thanks to all of you mothers out their, especially my own. If taking care of one baby for a few hours was challenging for me, I cannot comprehend how hard it must have been for my mom to have had four little girls to constantly be taking care of.
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