Gentle Reminders for Worn Out Moms
It’s mid-February. Winter has been 700 years long. Your kids are constantly home from snow days, illnesses, or both. You haven’t felt the sun on your skin in weeks. Patience and ideas for dinners are both running low. We see you, we are you. Your reality is not unique and many other moms are experiencing the exact same thing you are. We know this because we’re there right now. Struggling through the same endless days, dragging to a finish line that never seems to get any closer. We want to remind you of a few things to help lift you up for the days that seem like you can’t catch a break, the days that won’t end so you can get some rest, and the days that blend together.
This is just a phase. Eventually, the season will change and the sun will come out again. Your kids will learn how to do things for themselves. You will be able to spend time doing the things you actually want to do. There is a season for everything, and eventually those seasons will end and a new one will begin.
You are stronger than you know. Remember how you had that really awful day last week? You’re still standing here. Life has thrown you half a million challenges and you lived to tell the tale. Sure, maybe not every single thing went exactly according to plan, and that’s totally okay. You stepped up when it was hard, when you didn’t want to, when only you could get it done. Look at how resilient you are in the face of a challenge.
The internet is a lie that you cannot afford to buy. Social media is a glamorous highlight reel of people’s everyday lives. Comparing your life and journey to theirs is an unfair practice because they are not you and you are not them. You are doing just fine with the way you are living and the family you are raising. Ignore all the noise.
You are doing the best you possibly can. This one you have to believe with your whole heart. On the days where there are things left undone. The times you forget something. The moments you let yourself break and the floodgates open. You are doing the best possible job you can. No one is perfect, including you. Give yourself the grace and space to be able to make mistakes or drop the ball every once in a while.
