#the joys of motherhood

[deathinfeathers-a]

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[valtiels-darkness]

.:Things one says to One's toddler:.

Why are you making happy noises? What did you do?! Why do you have a power tool?! You could have just asked for yogurt...

[milkcioccolato]

It’s a baby!

The dialogue you get from Lae’zel when getting the gith egg is so stinking sweet, my baby is learning love and tenderness bit by bit and it’s so damn cute🥺😭

[rainagainstthewindowatnight]

relationships between narcissistic mothers and daughters

midnight sun by stephenie meyer / white oleander (2002) / mermaids (1990) / the joy luck club (1993) / sharp objects (2018) / unknown / ladybird (2017) / white oleander by janet fitch / girl in progress (2012)

[saydesole]

Motherhood🤰🏾

[fictionadventurer]

The independent religious bookstore is the only place you can go on an overpriced shopping spree and feel good about it.

[strawberryblooded]

Pinterest find x

[purpleandstarlight]

I have not kept up with the anime AT ALL like haven't even watched episode one HOWEVER. My daughter is here. And she looks happy and healthy and has a pretty outfit and a pair of cute mint bows as earrings. I couldn't wake up to better news, really.

[apenitentialprayer]

God, Like a Mother

I assure you that the good Lord much is better than you think. He is satisfied with a look, a sigh of love. . . […] Look at a small child, who has just angered his mother by getting angry or by disobeying her; if he hides in a corner with a sulky air and cries out in fear of being punished, his mother will certainly not forgive him his fault, but if he comes to stretch out his little arms to her, smiling and saying, "Kiss me, I won't do it again." Will his mother be able not to press him to her heart with tenderness and forget his childish tricks? Again, by the heart, he will never be punished.

- Saint Thérèse of Lisieux (Letter 191, To her sister Léonie)

A mother once hid herself in a garden amongst some densely growing shrubs, and her little son went in search of her here and there, crying as he went. Through the whole garden he went, but could not find her. A servant said to him, "Sonny, don't cry! Look at the mangoes on this tree and all the pretty, pretty flowers in the garden. Come, I am going to get some for you." But the child cried out, "No! No! I want my mother. The food she gives me is nicer than all the mangoes, and her love is sweeter far than all these flowers, and indeed you know that all this garden is mine, for all that my mother has is mine. No! I want my mother!" When the mother, hidden in the bushes, heard this, she rushed out and, snatching her child to her breast, smothered him with kisses, and that garden became a paradise to the child. In this way My children cannot find in this great garden of a world, so full of charming and beautiful things, any true joy until they find Me. I am their Emmanuel, who is ever with them, and I make Myself known to them.

- "The Master," from Sadhu Sundar Singh's At The Master's Feet

Jesus Christ therefore, who Himself overcame evil with good, is our true Mother. We received our being from Him and this is where His Maternity starts. […] Our highest Father, God Almighty, who is Being, has always known us and loved us: because of this knowledge, through His marvelous and deep charity and with the unanimous consent of the Blessed Trinity, He wanted the Second Person to become our Mother, our Brother, our Savior. It is thus logical that God, being our Father, be also our Mother. Our Father desires, our Mother operates, and our good Lord the Holy Spirit confirms; we are thus well advised to love our God through whom we have our being, to thank Him reverently and to praise Him for having created us; and to pray fervently to our Mother, so as to obtain mercy and compassion, and to pray to our Lord, the Holy Spirit, to obtain help and grace.

- Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love

Mother and Child in an Orange Grove, by Virginie Demont-Breton, oil on canvas

[a-dauntless-daffodil]

Spear baby with a knife 🔪 👍

NIFFTY WHAT DID YOU DO!!!!! XD XD XD

im picturing it, im seeing Alastor, backed into a corner and trying to fend off the baby with his microphone while sweating in FEAR, im seeing Vaggie recording all this on her phone but having trouble bc she's laughing so hard she's got tears of pride blinding her one eye- i see Charlie sprawled over 120% of the nearest couch (having already triple checked the knife at least isn't made out of HEAVENLY STEEL), floor around her covered in books on child development and parenting, face down, phone in hand, trying to call her mom AGAIN and ask how the fuck Lilith survived this-

Niffty is cheering from the top of the couch's back, Angel Dust is at the bar being held back by Husk so he doesn't interfere with the knife baby threatening Alastor situation, Cherri Bomb is taking the chance to grab an entire bottle of Husk's best stuff while trying to ignore All Of This

and then there's Lucifer. standing in the open doorway. Smiling in confusion while he cradles the newest rubber duck teething toy he's made for his grandkid (now 10x stronger than the last five who's heads the baby chewed off)

a lovely, peaceful day at the hazbin hotel

no wonder they aren't getting any more guests ^w^;

[sharper-than-a-serpents-tooth]

if Claude ever married for political reasons and his wife gave birth without complications he'd hate his wife just for the sin of not dying in childbirth like Diana

[rofax]

I went and got my hair cut today, and to be clear I have a pixie cut so it doesn't take very long, and when I got home my 2 year old daughter flies over to me going, "MAMA!! I MISS MAMA! I MISSED MAMA!"

And then added, "Miss me?? Miss me?"

🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

Every time I see a tradwife or whatever they're calling themselves now talk about how soft and relaxing motherhood is I want to crack up. Yeah getting thrown up on and no sleep, that makes you all tender and angelic. That woman only looks serene cause this was the one photo in the shoot where her baby wasn't crying.

[saydesole]

Happy Mother's Day to all mommies🩷

[spaghettixgarlicbread]