Loner

So I have been thinking lately how different I am. I mean, I know EVERYONE is different, that's what makes us special right? Well, I am not talking about how you have blond hair and I have brown, I am talking about my life choices fitting into some kind of category.

I mean, when some one says they are a republican, you automatically know a few things about them. When they say they are agnostic, or Buddhist or Christian, you have a few basics already covered. But me, I am not fitting into any category. I consider myself a conservative Christian, but when you get down to it, I have a few beliefs that don't really fit that.

Like I am all about environmental responsibility, "going green", kind of a liberal thing. I am into all natural childbirth, whole food eating, home remedies, extended breastfeeding and attachment parenting (all kind of considered liberal hippyism). I home school, which usually would have people thinking I fit into this very staunch christian school-at-home model, yet I am an unschooler (more popular in non-christian circles).

And in some cases I lean more toward the very traditional side, like my role as a wife and mother, but I have some modern Christian views that would be considered not so conservative.

All this to say that I really identified with Phat Mommy . I feel on the outside every where I go. When I am at church I feel too liberal for them, when I am at a La Leche League meeting I feel too conservative. I feel put down for my choices or at least that if I express why I do things a certain way, that others think I am putting their choices down.

I want to share with others my lifestyle, to educate and to maybe find other moms who understand what I am going through. I don't want to tell other people how to do things. I do think that everyone has to find the way that fits their family and is true to who God created them to be. And that isn't the same as me...it would just be nice to find someone who understands me.