Star*
call 911........call 911
I was wondering for those of us who feel on occasion that Motherhood ripped us off if this would help.
I was a Girl Scout. I was a brownie before that. With each organization you got a sash. With each newly learned skill you got a badge to sew on your sash.
I was daydreaming and thought wouldn't it be funny to see how many badges some women would get for Motherhood. It could be like at the onset of pregnancy you got a "I'm trying" badge and once you were pregnant you actually GOT the sash and your second badge that said "It's a baby".
Then you could get patches for the 15 hour club (staying up a day and a 1/2), the barf patch (I mastered puking), the diaper patch (I mastered those stupid little sticky tabs that stick to everything else but the diaper where I wanted it), and the colic patch, the I found the best bottle patch, the breast feeding patch - although I have my doubts as to what THAT would look like. And then there could be patches for crawling, pulling up, first steps, first tooth, first birthday. The first time my son brought me a flower and cheerios in bed. And of course they would go under your Top Rocker - that would say MOM.
Of course if you were in brownies or Girl Scouts you would already be a domestic goddess, sew, cook, clean, camp, etc.
And then I thought about all the patches that I never got with a difficult child. Patches for: 1st school play, homeroom mom, grade school carnival of any sort, choir, band, athletics, sports, (cursing is not an event) but surviving it should merit a reward. It would be a big mouth -sexy like Steven Tylers and have symbols rolling out in black. And then there is the encopretic patc - it's just a brown spot. And the skipping school patch, the 1st arrest patch (a set of handcuffs).
And then I realized that for all the patches I didn't have per se, I had a lot that most Mom's NEVER get the opportunity to have (or would want) BUT THEY ARE MY WARRIOR MOM patches. Like Goes to probation, gets a job, learns how to support himself.
And in the end it's all the same that we hope are kids are Healthy, happy, able to support themselves, survive in the world (I don't even want to think about my 17th year survivor patch) and just BE.
I guess I'm okay after all with the empty spots on my sash. difficult child and I just filled them with the not-so usual patches of our life.
Just thinking out loud.
Not looking for a reward - I have that already - it's my son.
Hugs for your day!
Star
I was a Girl Scout. I was a brownie before that. With each organization you got a sash. With each newly learned skill you got a badge to sew on your sash.
I was daydreaming and thought wouldn't it be funny to see how many badges some women would get for Motherhood. It could be like at the onset of pregnancy you got a "I'm trying" badge and once you were pregnant you actually GOT the sash and your second badge that said "It's a baby".
Then you could get patches for the 15 hour club (staying up a day and a 1/2), the barf patch (I mastered puking), the diaper patch (I mastered those stupid little sticky tabs that stick to everything else but the diaper where I wanted it), and the colic patch, the I found the best bottle patch, the breast feeding patch - although I have my doubts as to what THAT would look like. And then there could be patches for crawling, pulling up, first steps, first tooth, first birthday. The first time my son brought me a flower and cheerios in bed. And of course they would go under your Top Rocker - that would say MOM.
Of course if you were in brownies or Girl Scouts you would already be a domestic goddess, sew, cook, clean, camp, etc.
And then I thought about all the patches that I never got with a difficult child. Patches for: 1st school play, homeroom mom, grade school carnival of any sort, choir, band, athletics, sports, (cursing is not an event) but surviving it should merit a reward. It would be a big mouth -sexy like Steven Tylers and have symbols rolling out in black. And then there is the encopretic patc - it's just a brown spot. And the skipping school patch, the 1st arrest patch (a set of handcuffs).
And then I realized that for all the patches I didn't have per se, I had a lot that most Mom's NEVER get the opportunity to have (or would want) BUT THEY ARE MY WARRIOR MOM patches. Like Goes to probation, gets a job, learns how to support himself.
And in the end it's all the same that we hope are kids are Healthy, happy, able to support themselves, survive in the world (I don't even want to think about my 17th year survivor patch) and just BE.
I guess I'm okay after all with the empty spots on my sash. difficult child and I just filled them with the not-so usual patches of our life.
Just thinking out loud.
Not looking for a reward - I have that already - it's my son.
Hugs for your day!
Star