Loneliness Vs. Inspiration
Recently I’ve found myself up with the moon more than usual. I have a newborn. When I’m not nursing, burping, or changing her, I’m watching her sleep, in awe of her strength and fragility.
Oftentimes when I’m up with her I’m being extra quiet, not wanting to wake my 3 year-old or sleeping husband.
Some nights flow like warm honey, other nights are bumpy and clumsy, I forget how to mother, she forgets how to be soothed. During the hard nights I look out the window (and never at the clock- it would only make things tougher) and feel like the only mom, the only person, awake in the whole world.
It was a Facebook post by a dear friend that brought me back to reality. She lamented over being up late at night with both kids and no help. Her words echoed my sentiments.
The night can be so incredibly lonely for a mom tending to her children; children who seem to not know the different between night and day.
It’s so comforting to remember that there are moms all over the world changing soiled clothes, nursing, whispering to their babies…just the thought inspires me and rejuvenates my soul. It inspires poems to float around my head at 2 AM instead of complaints. I think of how blessed I am to be a mother. Instead of feeling like an island of solitude, I feel at least like a peninsula.
Moonlight Mamas is birthed from the late night connectedness we share as mothers and our tie to the beautiful always-watching moon.
Mom and Child
