Dealing With It

I decided to start blogging as a way of getting my frustrations out and hopefully finding others who will enjoy my frankness about mothering.  That's right.  Mothering.  Not parenting.  According to Wikipedia, "Parenting (or child rearing) is the process of promoting and supporting the physical, emotional, social, and intellectual development of a child from infancy to adulthood."  That's not what I'm talking about.  I'm talking about the shit they don't write about in magazines.  The shit nobody really prepares you for when it's all baby showers, balloons and breast pumps.  That's all fine and good, but I'm talking about being a mom and all the hell that goes with it.  So maybe in my path down Postpartum Depression Lane I can figure things out the way I always have - journaling - except in a very public realm, for the purpose of support and camaraderie from other whacked out moms like me.