{"id":865,"date":"2013-01-15T12:39:42","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T16:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/?p=865"},"modified":"2013-01-15T12:39:42","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T16:39:42","slug":"i-am-that-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/i-am-that-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"I Am That Mother."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/momtree.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"momtree\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/momtree.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"259\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am that mother,mom, momma who is willing to cry in front of her daughter.\u00a0 I am that mother, mom, mommy,who is willing to breathe, meditate and pray in front of her daughter-<\/p>\n<p>who is willing to face the truths of this life and share them; knowing full well, the truths my daughter faces in her life time will be easier to manage, maybe.<\/p>\n<p>I am that mother, mom,mommy who is willing to let it be, choose the battle, put my foot down, but not before<\/p>\n<p>I put it firmly in my mouth. Sometimes.<\/p>\n<p>I give too\u00a0 much, question my parenting, choices, look for time well spent, and chase time, that<\/p>\n<p>somehow slips away alarmingly fast.\u00a0 Too fast.<\/p>\n<p>I am that mother, mom, momma, mommy, ma who took the long route, the road less traveled, the path full of resistance-<\/p>\n<p>and now watch as my daughter does the same.\u00a0 Sometimes I fight the urge to give directions-sometimes I show her the way.<\/p>\n<p>I cry, yell, cuss, question, laugh, investigate, research, discover, and lovelovelove deeper than I ever imagined.<\/p>\n<p>I hang on too tight.\u00a0 All the time.<\/p>\n<p>I am still figuring it all out in between the good days and the not so good days. I cling, clutch, claw at the leaps and bounds taking my<\/p>\n<p>daughter closer to independence and her own way.\u00a0 I worry. I wonder. I will\u00a0 that all the goodness finds my daughter when she needs it most.<\/p>\n<p>I take equal parts of what worked for me and what never did and teach them both-hoping for the best and expecting everything in between-<\/p>\n<p>I tell the truth.\u00a0 Always.\u00a0 Especially when I don&#8217;t want to.\u00a0 I expect my daughter to do the same.\u00a0 Always.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t shy away from disappointment and despair.\u00a0 I expect my daughter to do the same.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t hide from the issues I&#8217;d rather not face. I bring them to light and hope the light shines brightest for my daughter when she too confronts issues she&#8217;d rather<\/p>\n<p>not face.<\/p>\n<p>I am that mother, mom, momma,mommy, ma.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"al2fb_like_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=217894238264870\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/i-am-that-mother\/\" layout=\"standard\" show_faces=\"true\" share=\"false\" width=\"450\" action=\"like\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" ref=\"AL2FB\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"al2fb_send_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=217894238264870\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:send ref=\"AL2FB\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/i-am-that-mother\/\"><\/fb:send><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; I am that mother,mom, momma who is willing to cry in front of her daughter.\u00a0 I am that mother, mom, mommy,who is willing to breathe, meditate and pray in front of her daughter- who is willing to face the truths of this life and share them; knowing full well, the truths my daughter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":868,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions\/868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}