Mother’s Day is coming and, usually, I look forward to a day of being spoiled and totally feeling like the world’s best mother but this year?

This year I don’t feel like the world’s best anything.

In fact I feel like sh*t.

The last few weeks have really knocked my confidence, as a mother.

I feel as though I am  free falling.

Out of control.

In true blog - happy style though I am going to give you a photo of how I picture motherhood because that’s what they are doing over at 5 Minutes For Mom and even though I can’t enter their competition because I am an Aussie, I am going to join in because, today I really need to remind myself how wonderfully amazing motherhood is.

Motherhood is this;

 that first breath taking, life altering glimpse at new life,

a change in this world - your world.

Knowing that nothing will ever be the same again, whether it is your first foray into motherhood or you sixth time down the road, your journey will be different from anything that has gone before it.

Motherhood is looking into the eyes of your child,

and knowing perfection,  for just that instant

and nothing else matters.

Motherhood is the past, the present and the future all wrapped up in this tiny being.

It is joy, hope, sacrifice, love, fear, sometimes painful, miraculous, often messy, exhausting

but worth it.

All of it is.