"I have to admit, I'm slightly relieved that it's NOT JUST ME!"
Thursday, May 15, 2008
one and a half years
i know we're not all at exactly the same point, but most of our kids are turning 1.5 around now. it's amazing, isn't it, how much they and we change in 1.5 years? as usual i have nothing profound to say, but i am just bowled over.
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.
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