Say What You Need to Say

Katrina Wampler — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:10:13 +0000

How many of us are walking around biting our tongues? Maybe in our marriages, with our children, friends or just to ourselves? How many of us wish we could say what we really mean?? Don’t you think it’s time?
Take a look at the video and really pay attention to the words:

It’s time to be honest to a fault. It’s time to cut the ‘bull-sugar’ and say what we really need to say.

Today, for me, I need to say:

“I feel very alone in parenting. Raising 3 pre-teens alone isn’t at all the glamorous life some make it out to be. I find it difficult and most days just plane joyless. If I have to break up one more argument I am going to rip my hair out. When do I get a day off? When does it end? Sure, I love them. This isn’t my first career choice but sometimes life events leave us no choice or we simply make the wrong ones and we are left with the aftermath. This is my aftermath. Some days…most days… I just want to get in my truck and drive until the noise stops. Gotta run…got a fight to break up.”

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What do you need to say? What do you need to get off your chest? Just writing it down takes a ton of weight off. So, say it here…say it anonymously. Say what ever is bugging you. I’m building a website as well. Mail us a post card and we’ll share your thoughts on the site (anonymously, of course) but say whatever.. and I do mean whatever (no holds barred) and we’ll get it out there for you.

Send postcards or letters to
If I Could Say
308 Churchill Downs Dr
Aberdeen NC
28315

To start with….

Katrina Wampler — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 01:31:00 +0000

I’ve been gone for a while. Health issues and all but in my time away, I’ve had a lot of time to think and a lot to think about.

Being a single mom for so many years now, I’ve settled into the mom roll rather well though I’ve come to understand there’s a lot about parenting most of us just aren’t talking about. So, on “If I Could Say”, I’m going to start saying it all.

I wonder sometimes if I am alone in my thinking though something tells me I am not. If I could say anything, it would be this… there are times I just don’t like being a mom. It doesn’t mean I don’t love my kids but there are times when I just don’t enjoy it at all. There’s no privacy, no time alone…heck, I barely have time to shower. I work from home so most days I don’t even leave or see another adult. Probably more like weeks instead of days.

There are days…like this one…where I just don’t feel like my life has meaning at all. Like there is no purpose and no reason for me to be here. Certainly this is not all God has called me to be. I can not be alone in this.

What would you say…what are you NOT saying? What would you say to your yonger self if you had the chance? Say what you need to say.