This Sunday morning, somewhere on Long Island, a mom will wake up before everyone else, just to have a minute to herself.
Somewhere else, a mom will be woken up by small hands and a slightly crumpled piece of construction paper with her artwork from daycare.
🌸Whether you’re the mom who had the birthday parties planned in January, the pediatric appointments scheduled six months out, and the developmental milestone chart bookmarked, OR you’re the one Googling “is this normal” at 1am and texting a friend “wait, should they be doing that by now?”…
🌻Whether your child hit every milestone exactly on schedule and you still somehow worried anyway, OR you’ve been navigating a longer, harder road with therapists and specialists and waiting rooms, and you know what real patience looks like…
🌼Whether you feel like you’ve got a handle on this, most days, OR you feel like you’re holding seventeen things together with love and not much else and hoping none of them drop…
🪻Whether you leaned on your village this year, the neighbor, the grandmother, OR you felt like you were doing it mostly alone and showed up anyway…
🌹Whether you cried in the car, or in the shower, or just quietly into your coffee when no one was looking…
❤️Whether you’re this mom or you’re that mom, you showed up. You asked the questions. You worried because you love them that much. You found the resources, or you searched for them, or you’re still searching, and that already makes you extraordinary.
At Help Me Grow Long Island, we see you. The ones who caught something early and advocated loudly. The ones still waiting for answers. The ones who just needed to know they weren’t alone, and found out they weren’t.
🌷This Mother’s Day, we’re grateful for every single one of you.
Happy Mother’s Day from Docs for Tots and the Help Me Grow Long Island team. Onward. 💐
