MOC8_DAY17.JOURNAL_Maternal Hindsight (londoncuppa)_Jan 17 20
REBECCA MCMEEN
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When I first read this challenge – journal about something in your life where “hindsight is 20/20” applies, there is only one thing I can think to journal about. While there are many choices I’ve made in my life that would have brought me along a very different path, I feel that God guided me along the one I took – difficult or not.
I became a mom at 21 and by the time I was 23, I had two children under age 2; one of which was hyper with a capital H (she still is…lol)! I was working a full-time job, with an hour commute each way. I’d also started my own business. To say the least, I was stretched very thin, both physically and emotionally.
What I regret is trying to tightly manage everything when they were little in a poor attempt at reducing my stress. For example - Not letting the girls play with something that I knew was going to create a huge mess because I didn’t have the energy to deal with the cleanup. It didn’t work, and trying to control everything created its own set of stressors.
When Harrison came around, I was 10 years older and 10 years wiser. I had the gift of hindsight, and he reaped the rewards of it. Letting him play with sand in the house was no big deal, and I realized that it shouldn’t have been a big deal when the girls were little either.
If I could go back and change my 20-something self, I would, but life doesn’t work that way. So, my advice to all young moms would be to not sweat the small stuff. It is small! You will survive the messes, and your children will thank you for it. Enjoy these years. They’re over too quickly.
