Mature Mom //top\\ -

When you become a mother in your twenties, you are still becoming yourself. The lines blur. You lose pieces of your identity to the baby, and it takes years to find them again.

Not frantic urgency. Loving urgency.

There is a difference.

They got the mom who has already buried her own ego, so she doesn't need them to be perfect. They got the mom who has seen enough loss to know that every ordinary Tuesday is a miracle. mature mom

You are not late. You are not behind. You are not "too old." When you become a mother in your twenties,

I don’t mourn the nights I lost at clubs. I don’t envy the spontaneous trips my childless friends take. I’ve had my spontaneity. I’ve had my late nights. I’ve had my selfish seasons. Not frantic urgency

But I am here . Fully, fiercely, gratefully here.