I’m Emily. I am a mother. I live in Northern California with my fantastic little family consisting of my husband, Dr. Doug, our daughter, Jane, and our son, William. I am lucky to spend my time relishing the sweet busyness of home life with our little children.
Since the birth of my first child, I have felt the need to redefine myself in some way. Before Jane I was a teacher. It consumed me. You don’t leave teaching at work. Not to sound full of myself or my profession, but I don’t think you understand that until you do it. And I was happy with that. I was truly contributing and changing lives. In a way, it was hard to leave that behind.
But motherhood is the same way. It’s with you wherever you go, even if that little one is not physically there. What would I be? It came to me with surety: I am a mother. I am also a daughter, a sister, a wife. Everything but family is ancillary to me. So I determined to use some kind of forum to express that and to develop other talents that I have.
Sometimes I think that what I have to say could help other people, and sometimes I just really want to put my feelings out there, to show that I have thoughts and can communicate them. I don’t profess to be an expert on anything except my own life and experiences, and even then I have a lot to learn.
But mostly, I want my children to know my memoirs of motherhood.
