Comments on: Just a Mom

By: deb

deb — Sun, 05 Apr 2015 16:55:22 +0000

I just saw this. Thank you, mom!

By: Ma

Ma — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 15:03:56 +0000

“Every once in a while I wonder if I have reached my potential”… If your potential is to foster the potential in 6 fascinatingly different human beings while fostering your own potential as a complicated and multifaceted diamond while fostering friendships and relationships most people would envy while fostering a home filled with crazy and wonderful animals (human as well as non-human (sorry Compass!))… Then my darling, I would say you are well on your way to reaching the most worthy of potentials as anyone could ever dream of!!! If I could do things over (and it would work out) I would have delayed my working years until all of you girls were out of school at the very least!! I don’t regret my times learning and doing at work, don’t regret my ladder that took me into nursing, but the time I DIDNT spend with you guys at home will be something I carry in my tears till the day I pass from the earth!! I know you wonder. That’s natural. But I, for one, can think of NOTHING more nobel and perfect for anyone to fill their potential than to help others fill their own potential while getting to while away the hours shoveling horse manure and writing poetry! Lol! You ROCK my girl!!!!

By: deb

deb — Sun, 15 Mar 2015 22:12:07 +0000

What a lovely comment, John. Thank you for your encouragement!!

By: john

john — Sun, 15 Mar 2015 16:06:12 +0000

You absolutely made the right decision and are very accomplished in your field of expertise as a mom! I had a fantastic life as a military man and rose through the ranks quickly in my chosen field. I had a great career as corporate man with steady up the ladder progress. BUT, I gave it all up to be there for my son. You see, all the accomplishments in the world are for naught if you set adrift a child and they are lost without the anchor called “mom” or “dad”. You are creating, molding and putting the finishing touches (for the first 18) of their young lives and then you let them set their sails and make their own course corrections with your guidance and things learned from you and the family culture. Rest easy Deb and put away those doubts. For it is the proverbial “grass is greener” phenomenon. You live in a far richer world than any amount of careerism or ladder climbing can bring.