Everyone tells you being a mother is going to be amazing!! They tell you how indescribable a love it is. They tell you its like having your heart walk around outside your body. They tell you all that and so much more about the wonder of motherhood.
Oh they are absolutely right!! Nothing anyone says can prepare you for how awesome it is. It is the most overwhelming feeling and the purest love you will ever know.
However its so much more too that no one mentions. Its hard yall! No one mentions that. Its exhausting!! Somedays its overwhelmingly hard!! That doesnt mean you dont love your child. There isnt anything I would not do for Connor. I would lay down my life to protect him without a second thought. And yet still I wont deny that being a mother is so stinking hard!!!
One reason is because there is no day off. Sure they can spend the night with family and you get a little break. But lets face it you will probably spend that break cleaning up the playroom, or finally folding those mountains of clothes you have put off folding.
Another reason its so hard is you dont become a mother and all your other responsibilities vanish. No your just adding a million more responsibilities to your already full list. Im still a wife, I still work outside the home, more laundry, more dishes, more bills. I could go on and on but you get my point.
Oh and simple task just got very much complicated. Even going to the grocery store becomes a chore with kids in tow. Wanna take a spontaneous trip, ha it takes so much planning and packing it definitely loses some of its fun factor. The laundry will never be completely done and your house will never be 100% clean, not for long anyway.
I could keep going but I wont.
Now lets talk about the good cause it far outweighs the rest!
Your heart will never be so full!! They will bring a joy that you never knew you were missing and yet you cannot fathom how you ever lived without!
So nope no one tells you about the hard days, but thats because the good outweigh them by far!!!
Oh they are absolutely right!! Nothing anyone says can prepare you for how awesome it is. It is the most overwhelming feeling and the purest love you will ever know.
However its so much more too that no one mentions. Its hard yall! No one mentions that. Its exhausting!! Somedays its overwhelmingly hard!! That doesnt mean you dont love your child. There isnt anything I would not do for Connor. I would lay down my life to protect him without a second thought. And yet still I wont deny that being a mother is so stinking hard!!!
One reason is because there is no day off. Sure they can spend the night with family and you get a little break. But lets face it you will probably spend that break cleaning up the playroom, or finally folding those mountains of clothes you have put off folding.
Another reason its so hard is you dont become a mother and all your other responsibilities vanish. No your just adding a million more responsibilities to your already full list. Im still a wife, I still work outside the home, more laundry, more dishes, more bills. I could go on and on but you get my point.
Oh and simple task just got very much complicated. Even going to the grocery store becomes a chore with kids in tow. Wanna take a spontaneous trip, ha it takes so much planning and packing it definitely loses some of its fun factor. The laundry will never be completely done and your house will never be 100% clean, not for long anyway.
I could keep going but I wont.
Now lets talk about the good cause it far outweighs the rest!
Your heart will never be so full!! They will bring a joy that you never knew you were missing and yet you cannot fathom how you ever lived without!
You will rejoice in each milestone! You will fight for them with a strength you never knew you possessed. You will laugh harder and more often than you ever have. You will dance, you will sing, you will baby talk, you wont care whose watching. You will change, you will bend, you will find your way, and if your anything like me you will never look back. Because you wont want to. Cause no matter how different your life looked before, no matter how much easier it was, or how much more time you had for yourself , youll now realize just how much you were missing out on.
That little face will change you forever. And you will be proud to be known as
__(insert childs name)_s____ Mom. You wont mind that you lost so much of who you were when they came along, because you will love who they make you. They make you mom and if your like me no title has ever felt so good.
So yes its hard, really hard!!! But its worth every second. You are doing something so important. You are making a difference in a life. You are someones whole world. You are raising a human being. And if your like me you'll agree that you are raising the MOST INCREDIBLE ONE ON EARTH!!!
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