The Secrets of Motherhood
No one ever tells the whole truth about motherhood. We hear a lot about how much love you have for your children, how you'd do absolutely anything for them. This is true. I won't deny it. But why doesn't anyone ever talk about the fact that sometimes, marbled in with the love that is so great it breaks your heart, is a massive dollop of irritation so great that you just can't bear to hear their sweet little voices any more? How, after a monologue by your five-year-old, that's lasted twenty minutes, you feel that if you hear, 'and Mommy, do you know what?' once more, you will just rip your own face off. Or, when your infant has been screaming for almost four hours, and your ears are ringing with the sound even when he's quiet, you wonder how it was that you never got around to scheduling that hysterectomy after the first one was born. You were warned, after all. There are nights when I look at my sleeping children, and though I know, objectively spe...