Butterflies

I have started this new journey of my life looking at myself as a butterfly. Before being a single mom, I lived the life as a wife (since a very young age) and a mother. I haven’t done much, seen much, and haven’t traveled to places I would like to. Kind of like…. living in a cocoon. But, at the time I enjoyed the cocoon…it was a safe place for me. It was all I knew. Then the divorce came…we will call this my big transition. My wings slowly started coming out and I have been transforming into something different. Stronger, wiser, and confident.

People look at single moms like cripples, and want to feel sorry. Of course, it is a not so ideal situation people ever think they are going to be in…but it does happen. Single moms are some of the strongest women out there and I need to start giving myself more credit and other single moms more credit. Raising children is a job unto itself. Doing it alone multiplies that by five. Single moms are some amazing women raising beautiful children in a couple’s world.

I got a card in the mail and it really touched my heart. What a coincidence that the card had butterflies on it. It read “You’ve got to admire them- setting off on a journey of no less than a thousand miles on only a wing and a prayer. Yet make it, they will. And so will you.”

I will make it. So will Preston. We are a great team. I am not going to wait for him to graduate school and be off to college before I figure myself out and become the most amazing me. I am going to do it now. Preston deserves the most amazing me and I deserve it too.