5 Things I Wish My Mom Had Told Me

 

 

 

Being a mom is by far the hardest job I’ve ever had. I’ve stayed home for 9 years and worked for 9 years and either way you are living it out, parenting is tough. I never had any idea that I would give birth to this perfect little human and that as they grow up and I would have to watch them make bad choices, get hurt, and even at times break my heart. 

 

 

I had no idea when I first got married the amount of highs and lows we would experience together. Truth be told, when we first started out there were times I honestly thought about giving up. But through the prayers of our family and when I gave my life over to Christ I took that option off the table and never looked back. It hasn’t always been easy, but by shifting my thoughts from I might to I won’t gave me the perseverence to push through and do the hard work needed to make a strong healthy marriage.

 

 

 

I had grown up on the fairy tale romance dream. I thought you would meet your Prince Charming, he would rescue you from all  your troubles and that you’d live happily ever after. Unfortunately reality isn’t anything like fairy tales. There are bills due, medical emergencies that pop up and your prince isn’t always so charming. Real life is hard, but when you are grounded in your faith in Jesus then you have the strength to carry you through any storms that might come your way.

 

 

Pretty much my whole life has been spent worried about what others thought, it’s only been until recently that I’ve come to start to release those expectations. They aren’t realistic and they aren’t what I’m supposed to be worried about. 

 

 

 

This is what I love about the M.O.M. Initiative, it’s a place where you can learn, grow and lean into moms who are farther down the road, either in parenting, marriage or even your own spiritual growth. It’s a place where you can connect with moms all over the world and truly learn to be more like Christ.

 

 

These are the top 5 things I wish my mom had told me when I was in my 20’s. Of course, I’m pretty sure if she did tell me that then I would have probably never believed her or wouldn’t have listened anyways because at that point I thought I had it figured out. Little did I really know.

 

Isn’t it true when we are in our 20’s we think we know it all, then in our 30’s we start to realize that our parents are actually pretty smart, in our 40’s we realize that we don’t know anything at all and our parents are genius’, and then in our 50’s and older we figure out that we don’t need to know all the answers, we can figure it out along the way.