'I just never related to the title, and this works for us.'
Which is why I love that my kids don’t call meFor ten years, my husband and I had been purposefully, prayerfully childfree. We had no imagination for children. Not making them. Not raising them.
So, for reasons I can try to explain but change every time that I do, we signed-up for a six-week foster parent training, curious if there were people in our community who might actually need us, if we might actually need them. It turned out to be a wonderful fit. With fostering, all the things that felt like deficits in me weren’t, actually, when the stated goal was not to replace parents but relieve parents and the stated need was for older, semi-independent, semi-conversational kids.
Dear Reader: I promise I tried to be kind. I tried to perform the disarming lady dance and say, “Hi, I like to be called Erin, what about you?” but it felt as if everyone was conspiring for me to be what was convenient to them: a one-size-fits-all version of woman. Indeed, the only people who didn’t seem freaked out by my linguistic preferences were our girls. It worked out well that I was very much attached to my first name, given that they were very much attached to their first mom.
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