There is one thing in this world you must never forget to do.
Human beings come into this world to do a particular work.
That work is their purpose, and each is specific to the person.
If you forget everything else and not this, there's nothing to worry about.
If you remember everything else and forget your true work,
then you will have done nothing with your life.
— Jelaluddin Rumi
Begin at the Beginning
Okay... here it goes. There are thousands, maybe even millions of stay-at-home-moms in the blogosphere. Why not one more right? I have to admit that I've stood on the blogging sidelines for years because I really didn't think that I had anything worth sharing. I'm not sure that I do now.
What I do know is that I'm right up against a mid-career crisis. I've been doing this SAHM thing for the last 5 years and I have to say, I suck! I do not have the proper training nor the experience nor inspiring mentors to guide me on this career track! A friend of mine made a comment recently that really stuck with me. She said of her first-born, "I've admitted to him that he's had to live with my ignorance. I don't know what I'm doing... I've never been a mom before!" I respect her honesty.
So where am I going with this? I had an epiphany. I realized that I have spent the last five years avoiding my life! I've created all sorts of noble reasons why I should be doing something else... because I was not ready to master the lesson that is staring me in the face, every day: a house, a spouse, two kids, two dogs and a fish. My epiphany is that I cannot truly succeed by avoiding failure. I cannot do something because I am running away from something else. I cannot I keep saying that I want to make a bigger impact on the world when the opportunity for big impact is right here! This is why I'm blogging. Because I am doing a 180 and embracing the life I am living. I want to fall in love with my work as a stay-at-home-mom.
And if you choose, you get to come along on the journey!