I’m a horrible mother. And a terrifically good mother. And a no nonsense mother and a spastic, nonsensical type of female who keeps parking crookedly and forgets the word for fork sometimes, and then other times I feed people my brilliance.
I don’t think any of us were meant to be good at this.
But I think that’s okay. I think for the first time ever, there’s no good mother Olympics, no gold to be won.
There are mistakes and bruises and tears and the way she looks at me like she’s known me before she was born and wishes she’d never met my face.
It’s the same way I look into the mirror sometimes.
But there are those other crystal clear moments, a love abundant, a love like Christ’s, where I can feel it all weaving together, broken skin healing and that sound she makes when she breathes.
Step one, we are alive.
Step two, start living,
Step three, write down, paper to pen.
Dear Ava,
I’m sorry.
But dear Ava,
You now know the truth.
