How can you be brave?
When I was pregnant with my first, I was facing being a single mom, living at home with my parents, not having a job (tendonitis meant I had to leave the serving job I had had for a long time), and a cheating fiance who was marrying the girl pregnant only 6 months after myself. 😬
Let’s just say confidence and certainty were not my best qualities at the time. But a positive outlook still was.
I was bringing a little life into the world surrounded by some of my favorite people and with SO much love. I was quite employable and lucky to be able to stay with my parents until I got back on my feet. And, honestly, mama was savvveeeddd the trouble of dealing with that unappreciative guy.
I also had the wherewithal to gather information for Treyton, later on, should he want answers to who his biological father was — all in the baby book and my noggin’. 🙌 patting myself on the back 🙌
With T-man, I was SO regimented and followed all the guidelines and advice and tips and read allllll the things and watched the shows and played classical music to my belly and tried making his own food and this and that and the other thing. Seriously, I could not have been more rigid and worried that I was going to do something wrong.
Fast forward to Tavie – the third child.
Sorry, kid. (I’m not sure if that apology is for Treyton or Tavie, to be frank.)
She definitely gets more leniency. Partially, because I’ve learned to relax and partially because the other two siphoned enough energy out of me that she gets the remainder after those years.
However, it also taught me how to trust myself, believe I’m doing the best of my ability every day, and that my parenting is unique to me.
I am BRAVE because my kiddos have helped shape the steady ground I now stand on.
Pieces that I’ve read, listened to, watched in women around me (family, friends, acquaintances, and strangers), and my own thoughts have all come together to create MY way of mothering.
And THAT is a beautiful thing.
Sure, I still have moments of weakness and times I need a hand or encouragement. Yet, I’m SURE that whatever decision I make is going to be the right one in that crossroad (and there are many crossroads).
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