Excuse me while I walk my dragon: a nod to the weirdness of motherhood
That’s what irrational fears do to us. They make us play out worst-case scenarios in movie-quality detail until they feel probable.I’m not proud that lizards used to terrify me. But in my defense, I am drawn to the same temperatures as those long-tailed creatures and during my travels, I have been surprised in the worst ways by more than a few.
But you wouldn’t have suspected any of that — that I had long feared lizards or that my nerves had been tested by bold ones — if you had seen me walking through my neighborhood on a recent afternoon. In my hand, I held a leash, which led to a harness that wrapped around the tiny, scaly chest of a bearded dragon that sat on my shoulder.
It also makes you do ridiculous things that your pre-mom self would have definitely responded to with “Nope.” To honor motherhood, it’s important we talk about all of that. The losses. The frustration. The exhaustion. The fear. The doubts. The wins. The sweet homemade cards.But this is not a column about those things. It is a nod to the weird parts of motherhood. It is an acknowledgment of all the absurd, silly, wondrous situations our pre-mom selves could have never imagined us embracing.
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