Jenny,
We haven’t known each other long, so this is from someone still learning what to notice about you.
Here’s what I’ve noticed so far.
Every time I see you, things are in order — your things are clean, you know where everything is, you aren’t behind on anything. Given what you’re carrying — a child who needs everything from you, full-time, while you still find room to help out people who barely know you — that’s a kind of work most people never see. Because you don’t make a thing of it.
Your daughter speaks in her own way. And she has you. She has the answer to a question most kids spend a lifetime asking, which is whether someone is paying attention. You are. Every day. Without making a performance of it.
I don’t think anyone really makes single motherhood look easy. You make it look like grace.
Happy Mother’s Day.
— Adam