Thoughts on Mom Shaming and Striving for Perfection

So many of us feel the pressure nowadays to be that "perfect" mom.  I'm sure mamas back in the day felt the pressure as well, but now that we have social media outlets like  Instagram, Facebook, and Pinterest the temptation to compare confronts us every time we check our profiles.

My FB feed is a showcase of how amazing the moms that I know are.  I have friends who are excellent artists, seamstresses, crafters, chefs, decorators, homemakers, etc.  I have friends who take their kids on trips around the world, who home school their kids, who birth children without drugs, or even have five or more children.

And then there's me.

To some extent my Pinterest is a "dream board."  Oh, I'd love this, one day I will cook this.  On a day I'm feeling ambitious I will make that.  So many beautiful things to pin.  So many great ideas to consider.  But there's so little time, skill, and/or willpower to fulfill my "dream board."

I'm going to keep this short, because honestly what I've been doing lately is starting drafts and not finishing them.  I started this post days ago and it's still in my draft folder.  Ugh.  I'm sure someone else can relate to starting things and just not finishing, right?!?

Regardless of our own inadequacies in certain areas my desire is to just see women empower women. Moms encourage moms.  None of this "mom shaming" crap that seems so rampant today.  It was always there, but now that we have an online "voice" it seems ever-present.

And come on ladies, we need to be okay with disagreeing on things.  I hate the condescending "oh, I would NEVER do that" attitude we get with one another on different issues.  Most of the time there's not "one" way to do things, and we need to be respectful of other people holding different belief systems than we hold personally.  Have the time until you have walked in someone's shoes you wouldn't know how you would handle yourself!

Stop worrying about everyone else and what they are doing.  Strive to be the best YOU that YOU can be.  If we all work at being the best woman God created us individually to be we can spend more time building one another up.  After all, we need each another.