A – Z: For My Children on Mother’s Day

A is for Awe, when they placed you on my chest

B is for Birth and for Bottles and Breasts

C is for Colic and Car Seats and Crawling

D is for Discipline, Diapers and Drawing

E is for Ear Infections, Lord knows we had those

F is for Father and a Family that grows

G is for Genetics and Giggles and Go

H is for Hugs and the Home we love so

I is Imagination and that darn Ice Cream truck

J is for Juice and Jelly and Junk

K is for Kindergarten, bringing tears to my eyes

L is for Listen and Little, White Lies

M is for Mom and Maternity Clothes

N is for Naps and your cute button Nose

O is for Ovaries, Outdoors and Obsessed

P is Potty Training, Pizza and Pets

Q is my voice saying Quickly! or Quiet!

R is Rashes and Reading and Riot

S is your Safety, which is what matters most

T is for Temper Tantrum, Timeout and Toast

U is Unruly and Ugly at times

V is Vaccinations (there are no other rhymes)

W is Whining and Water and Weather

X marks the spot where you bury the treasure

Y is for You, no matter your age

Z is for Zero things that I'd ever change

Just being your Mother, is an incredible gift

When my morale is down, you give it a lift

With a touch or a hug or the sound of your voice

I know that Motherhood was my greatest choice.

My marriage to your Daddy, made me a Wife

But when you were born…YOU gave ME life.

Cindy Schieffer is the devoted mom of two crazy, little boys and the lucky wife of a man who always makes her laugh. From their happy home in a tiny town nestled by the ocean, Cindy chronicles her adventures with LOL humor and beautiful honesty at Confessions of a Serial Swooper. As she says, “I really can’t complain … but I do a little anyway.” Check her out: http://serialswooper.com/