Why you are enough

Being a mom of 2 small girls myself, I defiantly understand the feeling of not being enough of what your children need especially being a mother with mental disabilities. I have gone through it all the uncertainty and doubt that what i'm doing is wrong and that i could never be all of it for them. but I slowly learned in the past 3 years that I don't have to be everything I do is enough because i'm trying to give them the best life and i'm working hard to do everything in my power to be all that they need. i'm also a single mother i'm supposed to be mom and dad but that doesn't have to be so. who said moms cant be a disciplinarian ,coach sports or whatever. We definitely can and we do. we are enough for our kids. You are enough for your kid/kids. As long as your trying your best and you love them that is enough.

There are things we ALL do as moms that we really shouldn't feel guilty about or judge ourselves for. Wither or not your a pacifier mom (like me). Who gives your 9 month old a binky because you really just need a break, and/or you give it to them after it falls on the floor. just give yourself a break we all do it at some point or another, in some way or another.

Things like this are little but for people have a little harder struggle weather you or your child has a disabilities visibly or invisible it complicates the relationship with your child. Before coming to terms with the way I am and the fact of my disability I have to parent a little different than most parents I was angry and it was hard for me to see the light at the end of the tunnel until when my oldest daughter turned 2 and I was pregnant with my youngest I realized that she doesn't care if I parent like other mommies she loved me just the way I was and that my new little baby who is 1 now would to.

I worked hard to identify the kind of mother I wanted to be and took the steps (although different as they maybe) to become that mom. Then came the fun/interesting part identifying the kind of mom I wanted my kids to be raised by and when looking in the mirror it wasn't the stressed to hard on herself way too over achieving mom I was.

When realizing i'm enough I knew what it took to be good mom and that was to try my best and take my regular personality and let it shine in my mothering.

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