Wit's End

As I'm sure you all do, I sometimes frequent a place called Wit's End. Isn't it amazing how, while being a mother, you can go from feeling as if you can conquer the world one day to wishing you could curl up in the corner and cry your eyes out the next? There are some days when the "to do list" I've been given seems to be more than I can take. I can only count on the hope that tomorrow will be better, it has to be. And it almost always is.

Maybe tomorrow Dustin will do something hilarious to get me laughing. Or Claire will want to sit, snuggle and read a book. Out of the blue, Hillary might give me a huge hug and tell me how much she loves me. And a day won't go by that Rachael doesn't flash me her toothless grin :)

I was so touched by this quote from Victor Hugo. "Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake." It puts my spirit at ease to know that at the end of a long day and after doing the best that I can possibly do, there is someone watching over me and my family, someone all powerful who is willing to fill in the gaps that I leave undone.

Yes, we as mothers often visit that place dubbed Wit's End. But I believe that all the time I spend visiting there makes the times when I am "home" much more sweet and wonderful.