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1:53pm 12-15-2011 Jennie: Website
http://jennietidbitz.blogspot.com; Don't know exactly how I fit into any of this, but this gathering of moms, seems refreshing and real to me. I sometimes feel confused and wonder if it is me or the world. I am pretty sure its not all me. Seeing as these ladies above in the pictures, seem to sound much like me. Nice to see I am not alone.

3:08pm 10-20-2011 Mother X: Website
http://notebooksofmotherx.wordpress.com; PS: The next phase of my daughter's recovery may be "unschooling" or homeschooling, something she's passionately researching. I've noticed that when I mention this in public speres, it feels as radical as if I'd announced that she's considering a sex change (which she's not).

2:50pm 10-20-2011 Mother X: Website
http://notebooksofmotherx.wordpress.com; I love Underground Moms! I feel like I've found a community.

About my site: The Notebooks of Mother X is a memoir consisting of nonlinear, early drafts about my life as a mother. I’ve spent the last three years trying to get help for my teenage daughter who has been at-risk and in crisis. My therapist, one of the few who’s consistently supported me throughout this nightmare, put it this way today: “she was in peril.”

One year ago this month, on 10/1/10, I started this blog and wrote: “I’m finding it hard to write about this; sometimes I’m lucky to get anything down at all. My hope is that writing will help me get through this time and be a little healthier for having had a voice–at least on the page–and that sharing my story may be helpful to other parents who might see aspects of their lives in these notes and feel a little less alone.”

After that, I wrote and posted only four blog entries. Then nothing. Follow-through is something I do either very well or terribly. For example, I earned an advanced degree but never completed the essay a dear friend commissioned. This time, my failure had something to do with pain.

A little history: when my daughter was two, I separated from her father. From then on, she lived with me at least four nights a week, Sunday-Thursday, so that her school week would be relatively consistent. For a child of divorce, she was an amazingly happy and well-adjusted child, as well as being smart, funny, fun-loving, creative and kind-hearted. Then she turned thirteen.

For the next two years, I identified serious warning signs such as cutting, drinking and using drugs, as my lovely daughter spiraled down. Most people I reached out to—including my child’s therapist and psychotherapist—said that I was overreacting and overprotective and that she’d grow out of it soon enough. Tragically, I had to take legal action to protect my daughter from one of the men she was involved with about the same time that I moved to a new home seventy minutes away. My daughter decided to live with her father. I didn’t see her for about four months. After that, she’d only “visit” twice a month for the next five months. What happened next ended my child’s former life but gave her a chance to begin treatment, recovery and a new life.

Now, I’m ready to try again. It’s not like I haven’t been writing. I’ve filled several notebooks with my messy, “secret code” handwriting.

Names  have been changed to protect other people’s privacy–especially my daughter’s. While there are no other fictional inventions here, I intentionally compress and focus parts of the real-life “narrative” while omitting others for practical purposes.

5:19pm 09-12-2011 Emily Moothart: Website
www.laundryandlullabies.blogspot.com; Thank you for this! It can be so hard to raise kids with plain old COMMON SENSE in this culture...I'm forever feeling like a "bad mom" and having to talk myself out of it. :) Your button is on my sidebar!

11:17pm 09-02-2011 Crystal: Website
Baccus; I am not alone!

11:48am 08-28-2011 Lesli Peterson: Website
http://thefarm.typepad.com/cooper/; We're an unschooling family trying to live the way we feel is right, which is usually the opposite of what most people think is right.

10:37pm 08-18-2011 Mandy: Website
http://whodababy.blogspot.com; Great site!

9:33pm 07-12-2011 Ruby: Website
http://halftowholeme.blogspot.com; Awesome!! Love this site!

12:35pm 06-07-2011 Janice: Website
http://www.thenotsospecialmother.com; My blog title says it all. I'm the mother of one typical (well, sort of) and one special needs child. See? Even I have succumbed to that "special needs" stuff. Really, the old me would have said one normal and one disabled child. And there's nothing wrong with that, either. Really. But so many people would get bent out of shape about those word choices! I'm glad I found a group that can join me in collectively saying, "Screw you!"

9:15pm 06-06-2011 Red Clover Napa: Website
http://redclovernapa.wordpress.com/; We are about sustainability, creativity, simplicity, style, comfort, and abundance in life and parenting. Red Clover is a reflection of our every day lives as we work to live our values, and have a little fun while we are at it.

8:05am 05-23-2011 Vinobaby: Website
http://vinobaby.blogspot.com; Finally, a place where I don't have to keep my mouth shut for fear of offending such sensitive Mummies. I am so tired of being ostracized because I refuse to hover and I allow my kid just be a kid.

Cheers!
Vinobaby

10:16am 05-11-2011 Emily: Website
http://emilyjuggles.blogspot.com/; Wonderful site! I'm putting up your widget.

1:32pm 05-04-2011 Kitty Kay: Website
http://noguilelifeandotherstoriesfromautism.blogspot.com/; Just found your site. :)

5:45pm 04-19-2011 AHLondon: Website
http://americanhousewifeinlondon.blogspot.com; A Texan Expat in London with 4 kids within 5 years, including a set of twins.

5:38pm 04-15-2011 Stacey: Website
http://echolage.wordpress.com; Ah finally a group of women not just following the flow or fear and hovering. We're an urban homeschooling living out in the world family, where even at almost 5 my son spends hours out in our Hell Strip garden by himself.

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