some of you may know this already but my plan was to homeschool my kiddo rather than sending him to public school. That intention was built around lots of philosophical reasoning and preparation and the little cutie’s immune system.

After plans changed and he entered into Grade 1 the pace picked up for us immediately.

It’s been a very interesting shift and we have just now completed another innoculatory round of immune system initiation wherein we catch an illness every time someone blinks in my son’s direction.

never having been in daycare, sitter, nannied, preschool, kindergarten et cetera, we were in our own pristine sort of vibe. A more metaphysical way to say it is that our aura was understandably vulnerable from lack of outside interaction.

Now though as we are finally more appropriately integrated into a community it’s important to think about the journey that got us here.

As I take the necessary experience of reviewing photos and videos from our early moments together I am full of gratitude and joy and even pride in my parenting choices.

The one thing I wish is that new moms did have more support. I think of scenes in The Letdown and how beautiful a new mom support group would be. Would have been for me. I think when I have more children I will be involved in a thing like that.

As I pull together a list of media that profoundly impacted me during my early matrescence I can’t help but be so impressed by all of us who choose to parent at this juncture. Who make the beautiful decision to shepard human life with wisdom and care and to sacrifice sleep and so much more to mold the future.

Parenting is such a uniquely important lifestyle and I am so glad to be one among the ranks of this amazing bunch.