A Revelation of the Mothering Kind
We just celebrated Mother's Day 2013 and I've had a bit of a revelation about my Mothering and Mothers in general that I wanted to share. I've been looking at all the posts on Facebook the last few days about mothering and many shared about the reality of how hard and demanding it can be. I've been listening intently to what my friends have been saying about their own mothering issues and also contemplating my own mothering experience so far. Being a Mom is rewarding but honestly it is a really hard job. Some how I must of missed that memo! For most of the seventeen years I've been a Mom, I kind of believed a lie that I think other Mom's do sometimes also, that I just wasn't a very good Mom, that I was a failure and I was messing my kids up big time. People would tell me I was a good Mom, but deep down inside I just didn't believe it. With all the struggles I've had with my parenting, let's face it three children all diagnosed with some form