What was meant to be a resource for the lonely and seeking mother, turned into flashy, glaring badges defining me and thus defining you by parenting styles we've chosen or not chosen to embrace.
And so the Attachement Parenting, Breastfeeding and Babywearing buttons had to come down from the sidebar of my home here online during my recent redesign by the fabulous Alita Jewel.
Not because I don't passionately believe in the benefits of breastfeeding and babywearing and the basic tenants of AP such as loving and respecting each person in the family no matter how tiny
but because I don't see you as a breastfeeding mom or a formula feeding mom
a babywearing mom versus a stroller-pushing mom
an AP or a Babywise mom.
I see you
I see me as
whole people
who are loved beyond our modest understanding.
We are more.
More than our parenting choices.
More than our jobs.
More than our self-professed roles.
We are valued
and chosen
and wildly loved
and complexly created
by a Master Artist.
I wasn't planning to explain the facelift here but timing seems serendipitous as my online home was revamped just a week before the controversial Time magazine cover of a mother nursing her toddler son with a cover story title asking Are You Mom Enough? began yet another firestorm. {I'm not linking there, but you can search it if you'd like.}
And I'd like,
if I could, to answer
that for us all
regardless of if we nurse
by bottle or breast
when we are nourishing our loves with love --
that, no,
we are not mom enough.
we are more
because we are beloved beyond belief.
