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I’ll never forget the day I found out I was pregnant. I was 23, single (well dating my son’s dad) and at such a selfish stage of my life. It was all about me what I wanted and I didn’t know how a baby would fit into all that. I was scared. I remember how my childhood was and the one thing I vowed was to raise my child in a happy home with both parents there. Well isn’t it funny that things never go as planned!

Six days before my son’s first birthday I found myself packing up my son and I and moving into my mom and stepdad’s house. It was hard. It was scary. I still didn’t know the first thing about being a parent. I felt like I had been flying by the seat of my pants for the last year and had no clue how we would survive on our own.

But we have and I’m proud of it. He’s 10 now and I guess I’ve done fine as a parent I certainly have made my fair share of mistakes. Some bigger than others like the one I’m about to share!

Locked Out

I was without a vehichle and a friend took me grocery shopping. I thought we would have plenty of time because the bus wasn’t due to drop my son off (at this time he was 8, maybe 7 years old) for quite awhile and I didn’t need all that much from the store. By the time we got to the checout counter I was starting to panick a little…the lines were long (in every single lane of course!) and the bus was due to drop him off in about 20 minutes!

We didn’t make it back to my apartment in time. My poor son freaked out (what child wouldn’t?) and in his freak out moment he was actually smart enough to think of going to the back of the apartment to my bedroom window and pulling breaking the screen to get in through the window. (Kind of scary that a child could get in so easily but that’s another story lol). Once inside the apartment he called his dad which was NOT good for me but it calmed Caleb down so I was ok with that. His dad stayed on the phone with him until I got there.

My son survived and forgave me but I don’t know that my heart even healed over that mistake! I felt like the worst mom ever and thought for sure child protector services would be knocking on my door anytime!

The moral of that is that even when we make big mistakes our kids still love us and forgive us. The unconditional love they have for us is truly amazing. My son and I have talked about this and we laughed about it. I even made sure to tell him how proud I was that he thought to try to get in through a window!

This post is for the Motherhood Lessons Meme.  And now the fun part…I get to tag some moms to play along

• Chele from Good Birth Control blog
• Angie from Angie Rambles (Looking forward to hearing her perspective on this because she doesn’t have kids of her own but has been a step mom for a long time!)
• Cassie from Cassie Germsheid
• Expat Mom
• Tsoniki from Losing My Baby Weight
• Donna from Of Cheerios and Conference Calls
• Tamara from Tamara’s Tips

To play along ladies all you have to do is make a post on your blog and then link back to my post here.