![The Nelson Family](https://lifeonacouch.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Tifff.png)
This is the picture of a mother
![Lucky & Tiffany](https://lifeonacouch.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IMG_0321-1024x682.jpg)
She is capable of love in ways I can’t understand
![Lucky, Pepper & Duke](https://lifeonacouch.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/bed.png)
I see it when she wakes up sick, yet duty-bound
![Lucky & Pepper](https://lifeonacouch.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IMG_0565-1024x768.jpg)
I see it when she laughs without abandon at these funny little people
![Tiffany & Duke](https://lifeonacouch.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Fam-lift.png)
I see it when my instinct is to scold and hers is to hug
![Lovesac Footsac Blanket](https://lifeonacouch.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IMG_4218-1024x768.jpg)
I see it when she sleeps so lightly, always on alarm
![Pepper Sleeping](https://lifeonacouch.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IMG_0983-1024x768.jpg)
I see it when she sleeps so deeply, only to wake and do it again.
![Lucky, Tiffany, Pepper](https://lifeonacouch.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IMG_3252-1024x768.jpg)
Being a mom—being a really good mom—is harder than anything I’ll ever do.
![Duke & Tiffany picking apples](https://lifeonacouch.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IMG_3028-1024x768.jpg)
“Happy Mother’s Day” just doesn’t say it…but what else can I say?
![Lucky with baby 4](https://lifeonacouch.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IMG_1317-1024x768.jpg)
So, Happy Mother’s Day…and now our fourth is on the way!
Happy Mother’s Day to all moms, everywhere. You are the reason for life.
— Shawny