I'm a huge fan of Curly Girl Designs. It's more than a greeting card line. It's more like an inspiration line complete with cards, mugs, office supplies, etc. My blog profile pic explains why I love the name & Leigh's ability to provide gentle reminders with designs that make me smile make me love the company all the more.
I love them so much that her designs make up the wall paper on my Mac. This one popped up today and I instantly thought of all my Momish friends & fans.
"The real secret to the fabulous life is to live imperfectly with great delight"
So many people think of stepparenting as the conciliation prize. Sort of the "I'm sorry your fairy tale didn't come through...here's the next best thing." (Stereotypes are funny things aren't they?). The hard part for Momishes and Dadishes often is to not let that line of thinking (read total BS) creep into our own thoughts about our own lives. Stepparenting isn't a conciliation prize. It is the prize. I can't imagine life without my two guys. My perfectly imperfect life wasn't meant to look like the Cleavers', it was meant to look like mine. When I realized that the best things are those that are often unexpected I began to see that perfection was mine for the making.
"The great thing is once we let go over being everything, we have the opportunity to be gloriously ourselves"
We become better parents when we step away from the pursuit of perfection and begin to see ourselves for the glorious individuals we are. Stepparents offer something unique to their children, a perspective that isn't that of a biological or adoptive parent and isn't that of a friend either. We can't be everything but we can be "gloriously ourselves". There's simply no better gift.
This Momish role is one of the most important in my life. One of my greatest accomplishments in life is being a parent and loving the most incredible young man in a way that betters his life and helps him become who he wants to be, no matter how imperfect his life turns out.
