There's a post at Girls Gone Child that touched me today when I read it called The Changes that Occur Overnight.

I can relate to most of what she says, though admittedly I was probably way less of a party girl than she was before becoming a mother. Still, this really struck me:

"The truth was, shallow as it sounds, I missed the party. But parties (as one so quickly learns) never miss you back."

I encourage all mamas to go read and relate.

And to continue allowing motherhood to inspire us.

"Parenthood has become something to fear - like age itself - the responsibility of taking lives into our own hands and raising them. How quickly we forget that we've come this far taking care of ourselves, that sometimes it takes having a child to grow out of being one."