[ All credit to B`Creative Photography, whose lovely picture may be found here. ]
“Even if I’m setting myself up for failure,
I think it’s worth trying to be a mother who delights in who her children are,
in their knock-knock jokes and earnest questions.
A mother who spends less time obsessing about what will happen,
or what has happened,
and more time reveling in what is.
A mother who doesn’t fret over failings and slights,
who realizes her worries and anxieties are just thoughts,
the continuous chattering and judgement of a too busy mind.
A mother who doesn’t worry so much about being bad or good
but just recognizes that she’s both, and neither.
A mother who does her best,
and for whom that is good enough,
even if,
in the end,
her best turns out to be,
simply,
not bad. ”
[ Ayelet Waldman – Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace ]
Thirty Years Of Growing Pain(s) 
Man, great quote and picture!! Did you wanna fix “judgment” in the quote? 🙂
Thanks, hun 😀 Yeah, I guess, I probably should (that’s what I get from copy-pasting w/o spell checking 😉 ), but as that sounds like a lot of trouble right now, I’ll claim the typeo is part of the character of the quote and was intentionally used by the author 😉 -Great eye though: Thanks for pointing that out! 🙂