I’ve had a few challenges in my mothering career, and they’ve shaped who I am and what I believe. I’ve survived infertility, a special needs child, complications, divorce and single parenthood. I am a completely different person now than I was when I first started on this journey.
Just before I became a mother everything seemed so justifiable, so definitive. I was so certain that everything I believed was perfect… and then I discovered that I was wrong about just about everything. Living through the realities taught me how anemic “what ifs” were. Knowledge was not wisdom, it was just comforting justifications. I knew nothing about the depths of emotion, endurance and wisdom that challenges can bring.
I’m hoping life threw the vast majority of challenges my way early in the game and I can coast from now on.
Not really.
I’m grateful for the challenges I’ve faced – I like who I am now much more than who I was.
But a vacation would be nice, too.
