Choices And Motherhood

July 14, 2011 By Erika Zane

14 Jul

I have thought of the movie “Mona Lisa Smile” a lot over the past year. With decisions on whether or not to work at home (the job I had when Little Man was born) or outside the home part-time and then, once I decided to focus on motherhood and resigned from my full-time career, the internal debate over whether I made the correct decision in the months that followed.

Here is a little background on me:

My grandmother (my father’s mother) was a doctor, which I always knew was almost unheard of in the fifties and sixties, when she started her practice. My father’s two sisters also both had successful careers. One chose to pursue her career and the other chose to pursue the art of raising a family.

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Today I am guest posting for my very close friend Diana over at Hormonal Imbalances. She is an amazing woman and I am so excited to share my story on her blog!

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New Years Reruns and Reflections says:

December 29, 2011 at 11:55 pm

[…] Choices and motherhood (a guest post on another site) […]

Hello and welcome. It’s been a while. For Lent this year I decided to fast from the thing that took too much of my attention from what is truly important: Social Media. Though there are countless amazing benefits to Social Media, after about a month offline so far, there are seemingly just as many negatives. I never realized how much of my brain had been hijacked by it. I’ve had so many revelations about how much easier it is to move forward when I’m not constantly reminded of the past. But I still want to record my family as they grow at this ridiculous speed and, I’m realizing, so many of our family’s memories are here. Those along with so many of the struggles and stages we’ve worked through. Maybe in the midst of COVID19 isolation and my kids around me so often, I’m brought back to a time when they were too young for school and with me so often. Writing here during that time helped make up for the limited adult conversation in my days and the overwhelm provided by my… little treasures 😉 My husband, fur babies, three fiesty kids, and I hereby extend an invitation to visit this little sneak peak into our life. We’re super flawed and broken and there aren’t too many dull moments around here. And I promise it’s not always as magical as some of my golden hour, sun-soaked images would suggest. There’s usually too much coffee in my system and we welcome all the prayers. Come on over if you want to process with me.