Loving The Sisterhood & Why You Are Never Alone

I grew up in a household full of boys. Their friends were over all the time. Our family friends had boys too. So at age 8 when I cut my long hair short and refused to wear dresses anymore as they were too inconvenient when scaling fences, my brothers applauded. As time went on, I had a few close girlfriends - one who is still my BFF to this day. But I never really learned the value of being surrounded and supported by a sisterhood. Until that is I was 3 months into my journey as a SMG with a newborn and trying desperately to find amazing care - the next best thing to family. I talk about this whole experience in more detail in my book that I’m working on, as there was a LOT of painful learning in this experience. However to keep things short, the caregiver I had chosen, who from the outside seemed perfect, started to really concern me. I needed a wise sounding board to bounce my concerns off of. But I had no one. So I went online and for the first time in my life reached out to a community of other mothers. The sisterhood. It was 10pm at night and I poured my heart out asking for advice, though not expecting any. Within 20 minutes I had seven (count em’ seven!) extremely supportive replies. I have never been so grateful for the support and advice of complete strangers. Those women didn’t know it that night but they had thrown me a life line. Emboldened that I wasn’t going crazy, and that this caregiver’s behavior was totally unacceptable, I confronted her , immediately pulled my child from her care, and then reported her. Then I posted a review about her, using her full name so that other mothers wouldn’t be mesmerized by her charms as I had been. Thank you to the sisterhood. If you have a bad experience, especially with regard to childcare, please please post about it to warn other mothers. It turns out this woman had previously been reported but when I googled this person’s name nothing came up. And remember no matter how crappy/lost/hopeless you might be feeling, the sisterhood is ALWAYS there to help you 24/7. THANK GOD FOR SISTERS!