This app has become a lot of Mother’s Day drama today but I feel like I need to vent too.

My mom is very insensitive and has always done things to annoy me. I suffered a lot of emotional and verbal abuse as a child from both of my parents. I have done my best to keep a good relationship with them because of it affecting other family members. My husband and I unfortunately have to stay with them a few months until I can get back to work. Yesterday we had a Mother’s Day bbq (everyone lives together) for my mom and gave her gifts. I didn’t mind not being told happy Mother’s Day until my dad for no reason brought up that next year will be my first Mother’s Day 😑 I’m 32 weeks pregnant.

I tried to explain I’m already a mother and my mom said “No, because your baby isn’t costing you money yet” Being a mother is not a competition on who’s spent the most money. I told her I have spent a lot of money preparing for my baby. I have lost a lot of sleep and been put through a lot of stress caring for my unborn baby.

I became a step mommy in August 2017

I became a fur mama in 2018

I became a mother to an angel in 2019

I became a mother to the little baby still growing in my belly in 2020 despite him not being born yet.

Next year will be my 4th Mother’s Day and i wouldn’t be so upset if my parents didn’t try to argue with me. It makes me feel like my efforts as a Mother are being over looked and under appreciated.