Every year it seems we are celebrating the holidays earlier and earlier. Halloween candy is available in September, people are wishing you a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays the day after Thanksgiving, Valentine's are out the first of the year and so on. This year, it seemed as the whole week leading up to Mother Day's you heard people saying "Happy Mother's Day" to women they passed. I happened to be one of those women.
Four random strangers wished me a "Happy Mother's Day." I wasn't pushing a stroller, didn't have Cheerios's or pacifiers falling out of my purse and wasn't sporting a handmade macaroni pin that said "#1 Mom." I don't even have a wedding ring. Still people told me "Happy Mother's Day." One woman said she wasn't sure if I had kids, but proceeded to extend the wish. When I told her I didn't, she looked shock and I felt as if I almost had to apologize for not having kids.
Why just because I am woman, do people assume I am mom? I could be barren, I could have just experienced a miscarriage. Neither of those are true, but imagine how a woman who experienced those would have felt if they were wished a "Happy Mother's Day."
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Instead, I am just a 33-year-old woman, who is not married and has no children. I believe my time will come to be a mother, but until that time comes I wish everyone would leave their "Happy Mother's Day" to women they know are moms.
