It will shock no one that we love Mother’s Day at Motherline. It’s right there in our name, after all. Motherhood was the catalyst for my journey to find all-natural skincare that would live up to my (admittedly snobby) ingredient standards. And of course many of us on the Motherline team are mothers—aka the hardest job you’ll ever love, the job you never clock out of…
We love honoring mothers and celebrating women everywhere, every day. And if you want to dedicate a special day to it, all the better.
This Mother’s Day, I’d like to shed light on a group close to my heart: single moms.
I don’t have to explain to you why single moms deserve special attention for all they do. You know. You've seen. What I want to explain, though, is how it all hit home for me.
In 2017, my sister was widowed. None of us saw it coming. But suddenly she was a single mom with 5 kids and a thousand unanswerable questions. Why? Where do we go from here? How? She was, as the song goes, going through the unimaginable.
As my parents and sisters and brothers rallied around her, our eyes were opened. We gained a perspective on what a single mom’s life looks like, particularly how she (and her kids) might just…slip through the cracks.
Life is like that, right? Sometimes you have to go through something on a personal level to really gain the empathy and experience that forces us to engage. I remember, just after the birth of my first child, the first time someone from our local congregation brought over a hot, home-cooked meal for us. It made a massive difference. I knew, then and there, I would never miss the chance to bring a hot, home-cooked meal to a new mother.
What I wish, though—with both meals for new mothers and looking out for single mothers— is that I hadn’t waited for it all to hit home. I could’ve spent years being there, in the trenches, for women in need.
Which is why I’m writing you today, on the week of Mother’s Day. Not to encourage you to buy Motherline balm. Not to get you to read our monthly newsletter. No, I figure if I can reach even ONE of you, spur the smallest act from one of you to help someone like my sister, then maybe having a platform like the one Motherline has granted me can be a force for good.
So just this:
Look for the single mothers in your life, in your neighborhood. I guarantee that you won’t have to brainstorm for even a minute about ways that you can bless their lives.
Happy Mother’s Day from all of us at Motherline!
