Happy Mother's Day

To all the women out there who have suffered through morning sickness, no matter how severe, here's to you. To those that have experienced the pain of child-birth, something so profound that it can't adequately be described, here's to you.

To the women who have been through a miscarriage or the loss of a child, an experience so horrifying that the rest of us shutter to even imagine, here's to you.

To those who's bodies have changed and who's self-images have suffered, here's to you. To the stay-at-home mom's who've been asked, on more than one occasion, "So what exactly DO you do all day?". Or the women who juggle both motherhood and working outside the home and feel they just can't be the best at everything, here's to you.

To all the mom's who have made it through sleepless nights, urgent care visits, and tantrums, here's to you. If you've ever had the food that you worked laboriously to provide for your toddler thrown right back in your face, here's to you.

For all those women who have children older than mine and have faced obstacles I have yet to encounter, here's to you!

And for those of you who have yet to experience the joy of motherhood, and the reason why- despite all of these pitfalls- most of us choose to do it more than once, I have just one thing to say...

Come on in...the water's just fine!

Happy Mother's Day!!!