Hello and welcome to the MS-Mama Podcast. I'm your host, Abby Halberstadt, happy wife,

Mama to 10 Bible Believing Christian.

And on today's show, I want to keep on trucking

along the same veins of our topic from last week.

And if you are jumping in and haven't heard last week's topic,

we're addressing the idea of what true

honest motherhood looks like. I'm holding up my fingers in air quotes when I say that.

Is it honest to make sure that everybody knows about the negative and the lonely and the frustrating parts of motherhood?

Are those the parts that are glossed over the most does no one really talk about them.

I've got a lot of feedback from last week's podcast and some people have said

thank you for bringing this to my attention.

I think I've been ingesting this

honest motherhood narrative subconsciously without really realizing or pausing to

examine it other people have said maybe some of this narrative is coming from an older generation that did maybe paint the hardships and the challenges of motherhood into glowy or maybe cavalier of a light, like this is no big deal, or maybe what we're hearing,

so much of the time, is a version that's been handed down to us from Grandmothers and Great

Ants and people who have maybe gone past the hardest most in the trenches stages of motherhood and their memories have painted this kind of soft fuzzy warm glow over the frustrations they

experienced and so they're telling us things like you know cherish every

moment enjoy every single thing that you do with your kids and we find ourselves

bucking against this and maybe that's always been the case I have to think that this idea of

older women encouraging younger women to realize what they've got before it's gone,

namely children in their home to bring them joy and spend time with them.

And they're looking at it from the perspective of maybe their children don't visit them as often and they feel lonely for a different reason than the isolation of motherhood instead they feel like they would love to have their kids around more, or they would love to see their grandchildren more.

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