For those of us whose living rooms will never be seen on Pinterest

It must be the week of finding things through blogs and the web that really strike me. I've done it again. This one is for all my mom friends who, like me, tend to hold ourselves to high standards.

There’s something deeper going on in family life than can ever be expressed on a social network. Whatever it is we feel we are lacking, can we collectively decide–as deliberate mothers–that we are not going to sit around feeling discouraged about all the things we’re not? Can we remind each other that it is our uniqueness and love that our children long for?