About
I really didn’t know….. I must admit that “grown-up” life has been an interesting journey for me.
As a matter of fact if I had been able to see into the future, I wouldn’t have been in such a rush to grow up(smile).
I graduated from high school and college, married my college sweetheart and gave birth to two children-a daughter and a son.
These have been some of the major events in my life and I will not even attempt to enumerate the smaller events that have occurred that have been very challenging, energy consuming, time consuming, stressful, and yes, happy.
The idea for this newsletter came as a result of my conversations with friends, acquaintances, and total strangers who I have found shared many of the same experiences that I have being a wife and mother.
I don’t profess to have all the answers or, for that matter, any of the answers to life’s dilemna’s. The purpose of my newsletter isn’t to solve the world’s problems, your problems or even my problems to be honest.
I don’t make any claims of being a marriage counselor, theologian, child psychologist or Dear Abby. I do know that it doesn’t matter if you are married, single, African-American, White, Asian, or Hispanic we all share something in common and that is we are trying to rear happy, well adjusted and productive children for the future while also trying to maintain our own sanity.
Mother Wit’s purpose is to be a vehicle that encourages, inspires and provides information for other Mom’s who are trying to navigate through this incredible maze called “motherhood”.
I decided on the name MOTHER WIT as a tribute to our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers who did excellent jobs raising children without the benefit of books, magazines, or videotapes showing them “how it should be done”.
They instead used “reasoning power, intelligence, a mental soundness, resourcefulness, ingenuity” or “mother wit” and I think that most of us have turned out okay. As a matter of fact we could probably stand to use some of that same “mother wit” in our families.
So grab your coffee, tea or your Pepsi, prop up your feet, place the Do Not Disturb sign on your door and get prepared for an amazing experience- reading the Mother Wit newsletter.
Enjoy!!!