This week, my son is in Sunny Florida with his PaPa and grandparents affording me a week’s vacation from mommyhood. While I’m having a lovely time resting and marching to the beat of my own drum, it wouldn’t taste nearly as sweet if I didn’t know they were both coming back on Sunday.

Naturally this week, my beautiful and equally brave friend Leigh shared this link in a post about her mother. I thought it was something that best illuminated how I’ve felt this week about being a mom and how I still can’t conceive of the fact that my mom did the same for me and her mom did the same for her…whether we made it to the Olympics or not…