Comments on Mama May I: Carry On {Today's Mama}

You can do it ... and you are!! That piece for To...

2012-01-05T13:02:41.682-07:00

You can do it ... and you are!! That piece for Today's Mama, one of my faves. Keep it up!

xoxo,
April

PS - I adore this photo! (Don't know how I missed this post?!)

I also have a tough time looking back sometimes - ...

2012-01-05T08:25:41.157-07:00

I also have a tough time looking back sometimes - I recently threw out some college-year journals also after reading through them. However, I couldn't throw out the 4th grade creative writing workbooks where I said I was going to become the first woman president and bomb Kadafi. ;) I love that little girl even if I'm more for the peaceful-side of negotiations now.

I think it was really neat to have these glimpses ...

2012-01-02T21:30:23.139-07:00

I think it was really neat to have these glimpses into a earlier version of you! Scrabble, huh?

But in typing this, I realize that this whole reading of oneself is a very tricky business. I also wrote in a lot of journals - and I still have them - or maybe my parents have them? - well, they are somewhere - and I have NOT ONE BIT OF DESIRE to reread them. Or throw them away. That's a brave thing you did: finding, reading, throwing away, and even rereading your posts from the past year.

The photo of your boys, reading to each other? It does make me think about where the value lies in all this writing. It's something else that you mention often: The sharing. The community. The giving (and not just via motherhood).