Five Minute Friday - Real

Flawed, humbled, joyful, frustrated, interrupted three times in six words - that is the texture of my life these days - and also unpretentious, authentic, impacting.  Motherhood is the most real life experience I have known, amid a wide variety of life experiences.  Even marriage has not taken me to the deep places within that motherhood has.  I have found and seen some not so nice places within me that I never knew existed, but I have also found a depth of joy, compassion, contentment that I had never known either.  Even on the worst days - there is no where else I would rather be ... (interrupted again as my daughter plays cymbals on my arms..)