Mother's Day

I never really thought too hard about this day before, got my Mom a card and all that, but never really put a whole lot of thought about it for myself.  My sister last week reminded me what people believe Mother's should feel about Mother's Day.  She asked me if it was this weekend and I thought real hard and said, "Ya know, I have no idea when Mother's Day is."  Her response to that was, "How do you NOT know when Mother's Day is...You are a Mother?!"  To tell you the truth I just never think about it.  I do what I do because I absolutely adore my kids.  Yes, I said kids.  The one I have given birth too, the one that was given to me through marriage and the one that has yet to be born (about three weeks to go).

A beautiful mother and farmer's wife put it very well how most, I believe, of us farmer's wives feel.  Emily from Confessions of a Farm Wife talks about how this is one of the most inconvenient times for farmers to have to stop everything they are doing that effects our livelihood in order to celebrate some of these particular holidays and how we have a tendency to rain-check them.

This Mother's Day weekend I have been helping my farmer clean and build hog pens in preparation of some little piggies coming in next week.  I don't feel that I am being slighted in any way.  I am doing exactly what I am supposed to be doing as a mother, preparing a better life for my children.  I also hope to show my kids that I didn't have them so they could recognize how wonderful I am once a year.  Even the not so great Mom's get a mother's day card.  All I want his healthy, happy, and productive children which I guess makes me low maintenance in some people's eyes but I like it that way.  I don't need jewelry or a day away from my kids...on the contrary I don't enjoy time away from my kids and I would much rather be working on the farm as a family then sitting at a spa getting a massage and facial.