Dear Friends,
A decade of parenting! I woke up today snuggled against my ten year daughter who had crawled into bed with me after daddy had stumbled into the shower. My firstborn child is TEN YEARS OLD! How can that be? How can she be so tall, yet still the child who rocked my world to the core the moment I lifted her my breast? Ten years of attachment-style parenting and still I feel as committed and hopelessly in love with mothering as I did at that very moment of knowing...knowing that I could continue to sustain my child outside my body, knowing that she belonged in our arms, not in a crib across the hall, that her "self" was sacred, and that we would respect her for who she is and will become. Ah, the peace that comes with this firm knowledge.
So look mom! It wasn't a fad, I wasn't being "brainwashed by those people," I'm still there mom, walking the walk and talking the talk, there's no stopping a mama who knows what her gut says is true! Recently I saw a button being sold at a conference I attended. It said, "Yes it's True, I've Fallen in With the Wrong Crowd." I bought it of course, and smile when I look at it, because it reminds me of those early years of parenting. Maybe I should print some up with the word "wrong" changed to "right" and stick it in these pages. Hmmm, if only I had room for one more button...
Here's to the "wrong" crowd!
