What is a Mother?

What makes a mother?
Are you a mother when you have your first bout of morning sickness?
Are you a mother when the second line appears on the pregnancy test?
Are you a mother when you sign your name to the adoption papers?
What exactly is a mother?
In today's crazy world, it seems that mothers differ in many different ways.
There are those that get pregnant only to realize that their child will have a better life without them. They sign over their rights as a mom, and hand their baby to a woman who has wanted a child.
Is that a mother? The one who takes the baby with tears in her eyes, as she signs a piece of paper rather than giving birth? The one who willingly takes a child and raises it as her own?
Or perhaps its the one who has tried fertility drugs for months and years, just to find out one day that the second pink line appeared on their pregnancy test.
Maybe it's the mother of 6 children, that is the epitome of what a mother is.
I believe they are all mothers, they are all what children wait for.
From the compassion of the birth mother to give her child a better life, to the mother that is having her 6th child, and still has enough time for the 5 others she has.
A mother is the person who wipes the tears from her children's eyes as she kisses the scratches on their knees.
A mother is the woman who waits patiently at the end of her driveway to see the smile spread across her child's face as they jump off the bus.
A mother is the advocate for her children, the keeper of the candies, and the very best of all the friends her child has.
A mother is everything and everyone to her children.
So on this week, I would like to salute the mothers in the world.
I raise a baby bottle to the birth, adoptive, grand, new, old, young and pregnant mothers in the world.
Happy Mother's Day.