The mommy comparison game is so hard to not play. When your
child isn’t reaching milestones at the same pace as other kids, it makes you
wonder if something is wrong. With pinterest booming all these amazing ideas to
do with your kids, and you’re just trying to keep your kid from sticking their
fingers in the outlet it can be really discouraging. You can easily get
overwhelmed with this pressure to be perfect and to raise the perfect kid. If
you’re not careful you can quickly drown in all the things you wish you were
doing as a mother and miss out on everything you are already doing.

One of the hardest things as a mother is to not compare
yourself to the mother’s around you, but to become content with who you are as
a mother. You may all of a sudden wake up one day and you’re a mother, but it
takes a lifetime to become a mother. Each and every day is another day of
growing and learning and becoming the mother God has purposed you to be. Just
like anything else in life, you have to make sure not to get pulled and tugged
in different directions. There will be days when you aren’t sure exactly who
you are, or if you are being the mother you thought you would be. There will be
days where someone else seems to be a doing a way better job than you. There
will be days that you have to stop and remind yourself, that embracing who you
are as a mother is the most important thing to do in becoming a mother.

Those children that you have sitting in front of you – God
gave you those children for a specific reason. He purposely chose you to be the
mother of those kids. He knew what He was doing. He knew that only you could
mother them the way they would need to be mothered. He knew that only they
could help you to become the mother that He had destined for you to be. So don’t
look at pinterest and wish you could be the mom who could do everything you
see. Don’t look at the mother down the hall who seems to have it all put
together and you didn’t even shower when you left the house this morning. Look
at you and remind yourself that you can do this. Every day is another day to
becoming the mother you are meant to be.