fine print

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. ~Kenji Miyazawa

The turning point in the process of growing up

 is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt. ~Max Lerner

I could launch into one heck of a story tonight but I'm tired and surely sometimes you must think I share too much!

Do you ever stop to wonder what if you had read the "fine print" before signing onto this voyage of motherhood?

Would you still have signed up?

I like to tell myself that even if I read the fine print, I would have bravely stepped up to the task at hand

{but would I have really? Would you have? really? If someone spelled it all out beforehand?} 

My children are wonderful and inspiring and great but that doesn't mean "easy."

That means there is a lot of "fine print"

{yes in deed there is a lot of the good advertised stuff too!}

That means there are a whole heck of a lot of life lessons ~ for me {and them} but mostly me I think!

Today has been a day of....."growth"

Growth is a positive phrase for life lesson I suppose. Teaching moment.  Parenting.

Call it what you want, it's hard.

Somewhere inside I know that with growth comes pain and struggles.

Somewhere inside I know that it's not good  if we don't struggle and grow to be better.

But somewhere inside I hate all the "fine print" that surfaced the day I became a mom and more than that I hate the "fine print" that we're "not suppose" to talk about!

We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't. ~Frank A. Clark

We go along doing our best and it just takes a moment or a seed of doubt to send us into worry.

Balance.

Shift.

Wobble.
Grow.

Balance again.

{repeat}

Welcome to motherhood.

It's a process.

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts.

A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

~Sophia Loren