S6 E13: Motherhood Conversation With My Daughters

In the first decade of Ron and I’s marriage, we were referred to as Ron and Susan and the girls. There was a 5 and ½ year gap before the girl streak was broken and proceeded to have 3 boys in the next 4 years!!

And I’m super excited to have my 2 daughters Erica and Alexis sit down with me for a conversation about Motherhood.

I was one of those girls that can’t ever remember not having the desire to have a family and be a mom to many :)

I told many growing up that I wanted to have 10 kids! I’m guessing my thinking was there were 5 kids in my family which I always loved so I probably thought doubling that number would double the fun haha

It’s funny because remember many conversations with one of my college roommates who was from New York and whose plan was to become a lawyer where she was trying to convince me that I wasting my life and I needed to reevaluate my life goals at that time of desiring to become a wife and mother.  She could not wrap her head around how I could be as passionate and excited about those roles as hers of becoming a lawyer.  Her opinions and words never hurt my feeling or changed the way I thought because I was so sure of this long-held desire.

I’m sharing that to give you a peek into the thought process of my whole life dreaming about being a mother. It’s funny because I grew up the 4th of 5 kids and my mom had told us after having her 1st child she was totally content to not have anymore and could have never imagined raising 5 children.  Surprise!!  As her child, it was always a little hard to believe that as she was such an incredibly devoted mother that loved each of us deeply.

I’m sharing these different perspectives because we all come into this journey of Motherhood with different expectations. And we’re going to talk about expectations in today's episode.

I  wanted to give you a heads up that the setup for recording 3 people wasn’t optimal so you’ll notice some glitches in the sound that is different than our normal episodes but you can hear us and I hope you enjoy this conversation with my 2 daughters Erica and Alexis.