{"id":1397,"date":"2013-09-03T08:27:28","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T12:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=1397"},"modified":"2013-09-03T08:27:28","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T12:27:28","slug":"dear-mommy-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/03\/dear-mommy-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Mommy Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Mommy Friend,<\/p>\n

There\u2019s just a few things I need to get off my chest, a few things I think you should know.<\/p>\n

First off, Thank you.\u00a0 Thank you for being my friend.\u00a0 Thank you for letting your child be my child\u2019s friend.\u00a0 And most importantly, thank you for being your child\u2019s mommy.<\/p>\n

No matter how you parent your children, know that I do not judge you and, in fact, I respect you deeply for what you do for your children every day.\u00a0 We may not agree on every parenting choice but I appreciate that we can discuss our struggles and joys without making each other feel inferior.\u00a0 I appreciate that with all the pressure in the world to be a \u201cgood\u201d mommy or to make the \u201cright\u201d choices, that when we are together we can just be the mommies that we are and that we are comfortable with that.<\/p>\n

If I ever have or ever do make you feel uncomfortable or uneasy about your parenting choices, I’m sorry. \u00a0It’s not my intention to put you down, really I want to help lift you up. \u00a0I want to support you and walk with you along your mommying journey because we are in this together!<\/p>\n

No matter what your circumstances are or what choices you\u2019ve made (or not made or been forced into), I know you\u2019re doing the best you are capable of and that\u2019s what\u2019s important because what really matters most in the end is that you love your children and they love you immensely in return.\u00a0 You are the light of their life and no one will ever replace you because you are their mommy.<\/p>\n

I see you struggle once in a while and it breaks my heart.\u00a0 I see you questioning what you\u2019re doing, second guessing your choices, regretting what you\u2019ve done or feeling guilty about things that are or were out of your control.\u00a0 I know mommying is hard but you need to know you\u2019re doing an amazing job.\u00a0 No matter what other people say or think or the looks they give you, just know I think you\u2019re terrific (let\u2019s face it, if you weren\u2019t we probably wouldn\u2019t be friends!)<\/p>\n

Sometimes I think all we need in life to make mommying easier is a good friend (or two or three\u2026or a dozen!) and I just have to say, I\u2019m so thankful I have you in my life.\u00a0 And I really truly, with all my heart and with all the intensity I love my children with, mean that.\u00a0 You matter to me and I\u2019m so happy to have you to call on, vent to and share my life and children with.<\/p>\n

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Dear Mommy Friend, There\u2019s just a few things I need to get off my chest, a few things I think you should know. First off, Thank you.\u00a0 Thank you for being my friend.\u00a0 Thank you for letting your child be my child\u2019s friend.\u00a0 And most importantly, thank you for being your child\u2019s mommy. No matter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-mommys-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1397"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1405,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397\/revisions\/1405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}