Mom Guilt

[uniqueblue]

When I was young, I had such big ideas about how I wanted to be as a mom. I was a great babysitter and so thought that my dreams for my motherhood were sure to smoothly fall into place. I imagined all of the crafts, outings, projects, and activities I would do with my kids. I pictured the way the house would look and planned how we would work together, worship together, and play together.

I think much of the guilt that moms feel is caused by the discrepancy between their ideal vision of motherhood and the reality. We always can see our mistakes, our deficits, our lack of progress and we fail to measure up to the perfect image of the mothers we would like to be.

I love my boys so much and I let them know that even though my health problems prevent me from cooking, doing laundry, cleaning much, running around with them, taking them places, etc. that I am here to listen when they want to talk, pray with them before bed, give them hugs, and read them stories. But our lives are so chaotic and we each get lost in our own foggy ADD brains and in racing from emergency to emergency...so much time wasted and so many days of regret for lost opportunities.

[officerjoeys]

Sep. 20, 2009 at 8:35 PM

I'm sure your boys know how much you love them. You are a great mom for just doing the little things you can do.