Who Left Me In Charge?

I did not grow up dreaming of being a writer. I never wanted to be anything but someone's mommy. My dream of motherhood was very idealistic, even though I feel like my own mother did a great job portraying the truth of motherhood.

My belief that motherhood would come easy and be easy lasted all through my first pregnancy. It never occurred to me that once I became pregnant that I had to start making parental choices, even while my baby was still in my uterus. The end of my perfect plan came ...