05/10/2026
Because Mother’s Day sometimes looks different.
Sometimes it looks like meds before coffee.
Canceling plans because your child’s body said no.
Watching other families do things that just aren’t feasible for yours.
Smiling in photos while carrying a level of exhaustion or grief most people never see.
At the Apricity Hope Project, we talk a lot about the meaning of apricity:
the warmth of the sun in winter.
Because two things can exist at the same time.
You can love your child deeply and still grieve how hard their life is.
You can be grateful and completely overwhelmed.
You can feel joy, fear, pride, exhaustion, love, and loneliness all in the same moment.
This kind of motherhood asks us to hold impossible things at once.
Here we are, in the middle of May, while everyone talks about sunshine and blooming seasons… carrying things that still feel heavy.
But maybe apricity isn’t about pretending winter is gone.
Maybe it’s just about finding a glimmer of warmth anyway.
A moment to sit outside.
A child’s laugh.
A small win at therapy.
A good day after a hard week.
Someone finally understanding without needing an explanation.
To the moms raising children with disabilities, medical complexities, and rare diseases:
we see how hard you are working.
Not just to keep your children alive,
but to make sure they feel loved, included, safe, celebrated, and worthy in a world that doesn’t always make that easy.
That work matters. You matter. And we are so darn proud of you.
Happy Mother’s Day, Mama. 🩷
— The Apricity Hope Project
