An Open Letter to the Single Mother on Mother's Day
98% of the year, I’m happy with my situation. I’m a single work from home mother to two beautiful children, a three and a half year old boy, and a one and a half year old girl. I’m in no rush to find a partner, and I love having my independence. But, every year on Mother’s Day, I wake up with a sad ache in my heart. It’s one of the very few days a year where I wish I was waking up to someone who loves me, where waking up in an empty bed might mean that I’ve been left to sleep in, and maybe I’ll come out to a cup of coffee and a simple breakfast with my family. Where someone who truly, deeply cares for me stops and says “Wow. I see what you do for these kids, I see how hard you work to provide for them and see that they never want for anything, and I think it’s beautiful.”
