Mother of the Year: A List: Things I Should Think Twice About

Thursday, July 19, 2007

A List: Things I Should Think Twice About

...that sometimes I will give Owen formula instead of breastfeeding at times purely because it's easier and not because there isn't enough milk, but because I don't want someone sucking on me.
...that a peanut butter-filled rawhide bone might not be the best dog toy choice with a crawling, teething baby in the house (YUCK!)
...predicting that the baby is going to fall while pulling up on something, and watching it happen
...leaving a baby alone with a potted plant nearby (dirt apparently looks tasty)
...that each of Owen's diapers will take 500 years to decompose...and I could choose something else...but I'm cheap and lazy
When reading picture books: Do a sheep and a goat make the same noise? Baaaa?

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Megan Renaud said...: You are way too hard on yourself....and a sheep says baa, a goat says maa, silly.
meg; July 30, 2007 at 2:30 PM

What is this Blog all About?

This blog began when a few mothers I know continued to trade the sarcastic phrase "I win the Mother-of-the-Year-Award" for various feelings or events that made us feel less than adequate in motherhood.

The blog has evolved slightly. It's not only a place to explain why you might win the award. Although, those are welcome, amusing pieces to read as well! It attempts to provide a space for the ambiguity of motherhood. The doubts, the questions, the celebrations, and the venting that happens when moms get together. This can be a parallel place for that, I suppose. It might be a place for gaining perspective. Or perhaps a place to reassure or remind each other that we are doing a good job. The key, I think, is to avoid being judgmental, to realize that there is more than one good way to parent, and that every child is different.

It is a very hard job, being a mom. I really never had any idea. I am thankful, so VERY thankful for a few women who have offered their ears, their eyes, (in the case of email and instant messenger), and their patience. I'm not sure that I really could have survived (this well, this far) without them.
Even if I become the only author to this blog, I think I have begun to fulfill my mission to live in the moment; to breathe and to smile at what it means to be a Mother.

~Amy T

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A List: Things I Should Think Twice About

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