I can see the finish line!

I’ve never run a long race before but I imagine it has to be similar to having three kids in school at the. same. time.

It HAS to be!

And I imagine that approaching the finish line must feel like the last two weeks of school. You are exhausted, crap is still expected of you, and you cannot wait for it to be done. And similar to the long race, there are prizes at the end if you your student did well.

But of course the grass is always greener on the other side, and by the time summer is at an end and school is about to start again, I will return to my naïve little self that is excited for a bustling school year, new classes, and of course school supply shopping… Until then, I’ll have to drag myself across the finish line.

I'll Miss This...

I really love being a mom. Though at times I'm not sure if I am a mother or zookeeper, it really is the best job I’ve ever had. And as exhausted as I get, I love packing lunches every night, and folding little clothes (not so little on some any more), I love picking up LEGOS and Nerf darts from all over the house (no, seriously), and I love being begged to play games when all I want to do is crash on the couch.

I love it because one day I will miss it.

One day, my kids will be grown and begin a life of their own (that’s the idea anyway). And I won’t have lunches to pack any more, or little clothes to fold, or LEGOS or darts to pick up, no one will beg me to play games when I get home. I will miss those things. So I love them now.

Camps

In honor of the impending holiday (and my first ever blog post) I will have a series of posts to pay homage to Motherhood :)

Being a mom is really hard sometimes. 

It's not a competition (sorry to those who think their winning), you won't be graded (not traditionally at any rate), and you'll most likely do and say things you later regret (we are human after all). 

We all battle the same stresses, some of us are either better at handling it or better at hiding it. We all battle feeding our children the right foods, and whether we should immunize them, what route to take with schooling, and have probably cried at one time or another thinking we were doing everything wrong. 

Moms need other moms to get through the parenting years. We need to encourage and support one other because it's hard enough as it is. 

But creating camps based on if you work or stay-at-home or work from home only creates a division that doesn't help anyone. Every side has a struggle for the mother involved and pretending that one side is easier than another is an unfair judgment to make. All sides take a sacrifice, and to judge that the one your making is better than anyone else's is not right. What may be right for one situation may not be right or even possible for another. 

So in celebration of Mother's Day, let's take down our tents and camp in unison, because being a mom is hard enough without feeling condemned by each other. ♥