Mothering Many

You know, there are some times that really make you wonder if anything you have ever said to your kids has been heard. I’m at one of those stages with at least one of my kids right now. This has got to be the hardest part of the motherhood job. Getting up four times a night was a cakewalk. Watching them skin their knee was tough, but endurable. Now the end of active, hands on parenting is within sight for a couple of them and the stakes are incredibly high, and I am just hoping I haven’t utterly failed. Somebody tell me again that if you train up a child in the way he should go, when he is old he will not depart from it. And do detours count?

Hope you didn’t come here to get happy this evening.