Happy Mom's Day to everyone who answers to this most precious moniker.
Of all the things I've done, this is the part of me I hold most dear. Am I a perfect Mom? Absolutely not!
Did I make mistakes along the way? Of course!
But, perfection was never the goal, and it shouldn't be.
As you hold your newborn in your arms for the first time, every part of you will want to promise them this illusion of perfection. This perfection you never had. For your sake and theirs... please don't. If you try to hold yourself to that standard, you will feel like a failure every single day.
Maybe, instead, promise your best, and that you will lead with love. Know perfectly well, that there will be days so overwhelming, so exhausting, your best will feel like less than nothing. There will be days when at the end of it, lying in bed, trying desperately to sleep as your failure reel runs on repeat through your brain riddled with self-doubt, you will be convinced that this was the day that will put your kids in therapy for life and place you in the 'worst moms' hall of fame.
But....
Oh, and there is a but...
If you allow your best take the lead, there will be days filled with messy hugs, and sticky kisses. There will be deep conversations about ladybugs and fairies, dinosaurs and firetrucks, all while dirty dishes innocently hang out in the sink. You will be regaled with tales of the hierarchy of middle school, who is mean, and who is not. Then, because of this, the door of your teenagers' room might open more often, inviting you in.
As moms, we are protective. Often not only of our own, but all children. As aunties, as friends, we are protective. For the most part, I believe, that women, in general, are instinctually protective of children. I believe the scientific term is 'Mama Bear Syndrome.' I just made that up, so I doubt it's an official anything, but that doesn't make it any less true.
As women, as protectors of children I believe it is our collective duty to be a voice for every child who has no one to shield them from real harm.
We need to protect our children now, and fight for accountability and justice for those who have suffered the horrors of the past.
We can't let this Epstein evil get pushed to the side, no matter what kind of headline tries to push it to the back page.
The ministry of primary facts has put the heaviness of the evidence on display. All 3437, 800 page volumes of files. All 17000 pounds of truth made available for the world to see.
The Grand Cheeto, and those who seem to love the taste of his boots, will continue to try and save themselves from the consequences of what they've done. They might start even more wars, they are dangling UFO's, they are doing everything they can to make us look somewhere, anywhere else but at the truth.
It won't work.
The Mama Bears of the world won't allow it.
This, narcissistic idiot who literally falls asleep standing up at this point, and whose lack of intelligence is only being amplified by his dementia, is existing on borrowed time.
Consequences... tick tock, you orange asshat... tick tock.
To our rational American friends...
You got this.












