I am reposting this writing this morning because it will soon be Mother’s Day and I want to celebrate again the Foster Moms, Adoptive Moms and all the Moms of the world today.
A few years ago, Mother’s Day found me temporarily raising my one year old granddaughter. My friends and family were very quick to tell me what a wonderful person I was to take on this responsibility. But aside from the very real physical hardship of raising a one year old (try getting up off the floor at 65), I really felt nothing but love and a kind of awe that I had been given this opportunity to mother another member of my family. But as any Grandmother can attest, you fall in love with your grandchildren as easily as you fell in love with your own children. So, really I was living a lie. I wasn’t this…
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