Life is a succession of entrances and exits. From the mere moment of conception to that last instant in which we leave the human plane and speaking as a Christian we enter the celestial mansion.
Entering the parenting workforce means and endless list of entrances and exits to the hospital, house, schools, church, stores, parks of amusement, etc. It certainly happened during my daughter’s childhood. I still remember when at 15 days of being born and clock in hand I realized that the white nourishing product that had entered my baby’s system had not exited accordingly. Prey of typical fear of first time mothers and being a Sunday I had no other option than take her to emergency room and to celebrate her first 2 weeks during the hospital visit. It took me 2 years to pay off the bills of pediatric doctors that left their Sunday golf to go and certify that there was nothing wrong with the baby, problem was that the mother needed to relax.
Still under my trial period, I then realized that if I wished to perform my job well as a mother and obtain optimal results: I needed support. There were still many decision making moments ahead of us. I wanted to enter each stage of my daughter’s life along her with her full of enthusiasm and watch her grow into her shining future. To this point I could predict that each stage would bring about a new challenge. I would leave each stage behind, as she learned to walk, when she would leave home for school, when she would go out to play with friends, when she had her first crush, when she graduated, when she traveled, when she married.
Everything seemed to tell me that my new role would take me through a revolving door which would continually take me from one stage to next one. How many small and big decisions to make every day. Something really overwhelming for someone without the needed education. I was to perform a job in a position I did not know, that I could not take lightly and from which I would never try to leave. I had entered into this position to stay and perform the most exciting, passionate and delicate task that any human being can do: Be a parent, mother or father of another human being.
