Real Mom Talk: My First Mother’s Day Card
May 11, 2014 11:50 am | by Abby Kowalik
My first Mother Day card read “Happy Mother’s Day to a Wonderful Mother.” My friend bought it for me when I was 33 weeks pregnant. Reading the words “Wonderful Mother,” in a card addressed to me was very unnerving. Mothers wore pearls. They were older and had their lives together. And this wasn’t me. I wasn’t ready to be a mother (or so I thought) and definitely didn’t have anything together. The moment motherhood actually started to hit me was when I was sitting on the floor in a Walgreens bathroom, holding three positive pregnancy tests. I took three just