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| Me and my Bubbies |
From the very beginning - the moment they handed my tiny baby girl to my husband and she smiled when she heard me say hello - I've taken the 'road less traveled' on my parenting journey; not just to be different (most of the time, not even consciously!) but because something inside me told me it was the right thing to do, even when everyone around me said otherwise.
Being "counter-culture" when you're parenting is not an easy thing to do (parenting is hard enough in the 21st century - it seems as though we are all under more scrutiny than generations before us), but what I've learned from my experiences thus far has been priceless, from co-sleeping to breastfeeding to homeschooling and beyond. All of this hard-earned knowledge; it seems a shame not to share it with others. So I shall.
The Road Not Taken
By Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as long as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had not trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
