It’s the inability to attend that planned dinner with friends because one of your kids is running a fever. It’s opting for them.
It’s the impossibility of holding a conversation on the phone with a friend due to your rambunctious children creating a wild background noise. It’s selecting them.
It’s skipping a vacation because it clashes with your child’s long-practiced dance recital, an event they’ve eagerly anticipated for months. It’s prioritizing them.
It’s passing up on post-work drinks because your child won’t doze off unless their head is nestled on your chest. It’s making them your priority.
And although you might not always want to put them first, even if you were eagerly awaiting that dinner, that Bahamas getaway, that much-needed relaxation time, you still do.
From the moment your baby enters the world, you become intertwined with them. Hence, their needs take precedence, no matter the circumstances. Because the essence of motherhood lies in repeatedly choosing your children, over and over and over again. Unfailingly.
