http://erikanderica.org/erica/2007/05/12/i-can-be-cranky-because-now-im-a-mom/ A blog by Erica Schemper Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:15:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 http://erikanderica.org/erica/2007/05/12/i-can-be-cranky-because-now-im-a-mom/#comment-421 ppb Sun, 13 May 2007 19:28:09 +0000 http://erikanderica.org/erica/2007/05/12/i-can-be-cranky-because-now-im-a-mom/#comment-421 I hate mother's day in church. I take it off every year. There is nothing more painful to me than church being yet another place where "real women are mothers." And that's just my thing...there are also the one abused or abandoned by their mothers, the women who miscarry, the women whose mothers have died. We are so, so, so, sensitive in church about everything else. But mother's day seems to be the day when we think it's okay to trample on people. Father's day becomes dad and God the father. But mother's day? Argh. let me go back to my coccoon. I hate mother’s day in church. I take it off every year. There is nothing more painful to me than church being yet another place where “real women are mothers.” And that’s just my thing…there are also the one abused or abandoned by their mothers, the women who miscarry, the women whose mothers have died. We are so, so, so, sensitive in church about everything else. But mother’s day seems to be the day when we think it’s okay to trample on people. Father’s day becomes dad and God the father. But mother’s day? Argh. let me go back to my coccoon.

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