Karma Meals

After each of my children was born, we got so much unexpected help from so many sources. People brought food, helping hands, dropped off groceries…even went to GNC for me to buy fenugreek capsules. Of course, I accepted the help begrudgingly the first time around–I could do it myself! Right? Ha!

By my second child, I just accepted that people like to help mothers with new babies. In between children, I tried making meals whenever I could for new moms.

It’s harder for me to make “karma meals,” as I call them, now that I have two active children and I’m working again, but this week my schedule aligned so that I had a few spare hours to deliver meals. The night before, I made the biggest batch of chicken/quinoa/sweet potato stew I could and scooped it all into freezer-safe gallon bags to deliver to some newly expanded families.

I did it for me as much as for them. It feels good for me to pay back some of the wonderful help that came my way. To be honest, we still get a lot of help from the community even though my new baby is 16 months old now. Young kids are tough! You just never know what will happen with young kids–at my house the “something” always seems to involve vomit or tick bites. These sorts of things can throw off a family for a whole week.

So I’m going to keep making these spare meals to deliver whenever I’m able and try to keep my mama karma in the black. I’ve accepted by now that I can’t do this parenting thing alone. Not even close. Especially since we live far from our families. We depend on the community here and it’s heart warming to see how much support is around once we I swallow some stubborn sense of crazy and accept people’s offerings of goodwill.

It feels really, really good to reciprocate some of that energy. So who needs some soup?

Did you have a hard time accepting help when your children were born? Leave us a comment to share how you like to pay it forward.

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