Through her battle with cancer and the labyrinthine surrogacy process, LISA RAY tells us how she became the middle-aged-hot-mess happy-mom who’s still doing it her way.
“Mommy.” I look up, momentarily disoriented. The nurse has put a hand on my shoulder. She is smiling down at me with a gentle but perplexed look on her face. My twin girls, Sufiand Soleil, swivel their huge anime eyes at me. I’ve been waiting in the clinic for a check-up for my twin daughters and I had not only drifted off— which is my habit—but also completely ignored the receptionist’s increasingly loud calls. “Mommy? Come on in… It’s your turn.” Mommy. I am mommy. Not just that. I am an awkward, hot-mess mommy parenting in the age of the anxious mom cult. And I love it.
MUM’S THE WORD
When my husband and I got married, we captioned our marriage ‘Doing it our way’, just like Old Blue Eyes. Jason is pragmatic, sensible, efficient and detail-oriented. I’m not any of the above. We joke that he makes plans and I mess them up. I am the crazy counterbalance to his belief that everything in the world can be plotted on a spreadsheet. And in order for us to become parents at 46, we had to join opposing forces: both the practical and the divine.
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