On Mother’s Day, we lavish our mothers (and daughters and grandmothers) with sweets, fragrances, fancy cards, and dining out. Yesterday I enjoyed gardening in the sunny (and still mosquito free) weather, chatting with my children, scrolling through texts from friends and family. Nothing was commercialized, and I was feeling immensely grateful for the bounty of love coming my way.
And then today…
I read this article in The Guardian about all the mothers nationwide who are uniting to love and defend other people’s children. They weren’t just romanticizing about that delicious newborn smell or taking prom pics or planning summer vacations. They were spontaneously uniting in Minneapolis to deliver food to families who were afraid to leave their homes, to take children they had never met before to and from school, to alert their neighbors to imminent raids, and to even use their bodies to protect strangers who were being targeted.
“I see every child like I see my children and I think about their mothers having to see them suffer,” Accurso said. “It breaks me.”
This is just a tiny snapshot of what mothers across America are doing to honor and strengthen families nationwide. They are encouraging mothers to run for office and advocate for family-focused policies such as paid leave, childcare support, and maternal health care reforms. They are so much more than caregivers for their own families. They are influential political organizers working tirelessly to reshape public policy.
Read more about these mothers here.
by a Caring Patriot