Mother’s Day: Letting Ourselves be Human
On this Mother’s Day as J.R.’s high school graduation approaches, I feel a major shift in my role as a mom.
I vowed to do all I could to be the best mom possible and set about reading every parenting book I could get my hands on.
The first, was going within as much as my busy mom life allowed, the second was being present for my boys to the best of my ability.
Through this process I learned being present is one of the hardest things in life, but also incredibly rewarding.
On this Mother’s Day, however it looks for you…joyful, hard, sad, celebratory…try to keep it all in perspective.
The In-Between
In all my years as a mom I have never been so sad on a birthday.
I woke up weepy and my burbling emotions ebbed and flowed throughout the day.
A few weeks prior to this I was chatting with someone else and her empty nest experience was the opposite.
It sounded like Margaritaville at her house and it didn’t even need to be 5 o’clock anywhere.
Somehow life tilts itself back into balance no matter if we want it to or not.
