Tag: Parenting

"I'd gotten 2 kids and an adult into bed by 7.30pm. As I strutted (quietly) out of the room, I started thinking about how I'd spend my night... then I turned back, looked at my wife and little girl and it hit me like a ton of bricks."

"So we conceived our third child, another girl, and life hasn’t been the same since. She’s sixteen months old, and I’ve been waiting impatiently each day for things to calm down. They haven’t."

"None of these things matter much to me."

"As I was putting the folders back in the file cabinet I noticed something... looking at the size of the folders shocked me."

"This all started as I stared at myself in the mirror one morning, wondering if I should look and feel THIS exhausted. I am a mother of 3..."

"It was one of those single-mom moments where I thought I would go insane. I looked insane, probably smelled insane, and my head was pounding from all the screaming."

"I feel overwhelmed lately. It’s the kind of overwhelmed that makes me want to sit and do nothing because I have no idea where to even start. It’s the kind of overwhelmed that makes the tears sting my eyes because I feel like such a failure in multiple areas of my life right now."

That’s when I saw the toy my child had placed in the baggage area. And that’s when she chose to question me, “What’s the problem, mom?”