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i've started to attend birth center classes...which i highly recommend. i've been going to the le leche league meeting but then this week i went to the baby wearing meeting and today i went to the new mom meeting. at the new mom's meeting, i can't tell you how many mom's talked about wanting just a few hours each week for themselves and how hard it's been trying to figure out their days, like when and how t making meals, do the laundry, sleep...and how challenging it is to try and find the time to simply do the necessities like shower and brush your teeth.
thank you!!! at times i was starting to feel like a wimp. as if i'm just not good at this at-home mama thing!! i love it, don't get me wrong, i wouldn't want it any other way, but it's hard. a lot harder than i ever thought. one of the girls said to me how no one told her how hard staying at home would be. how demanding it is. and i totally agree. in fact people would ask me if i'd get bored! as if i have time to be bored!! i never knew it would be this hard.
i'm not complaining. i love being home. and steve has been amazing...if i don't get dinner done, we just graze, and he's ok with that. thank you steve!! taking care of asher is easy. of course i have meltdowns every now and then, but being him mama has been amazing...it's all the other little things that go along with being an at-home mama. the laundry, dinner, house cleaning, grocery shopping, paying bills, ministry things, showering...the list goes on and on...it's those things that unfortunately, some times don't get done. and that's ok...i just never thought it would be so hard to get everything done. i had grand schemes of doing things, starting projects and exercising and now, i just don't know where to fit them in.
i'll get the hang of things. i'll find a new rhythm to life...i just find it fascinating how so many women feel the same way and how no one told us how the little things become so hard...like finding time to go to the bathroom! i'm glad i went to the meeting. it truly made me feel less alone.
thank you!!! at times i was starting to feel like a wimp. as if i'm just not good at this at-home mama thing!! i love it, don't get me wrong, i wouldn't want it any other way, but it's hard. a lot harder than i ever thought. one of the girls said to me how no one told her how hard staying at home would be. how demanding it is. and i totally agree. in fact people would ask me if i'd get bored! as if i have time to be bored!! i never knew it would be this hard.
i'm not complaining. i love being home. and steve has been amazing...if i don't get dinner done, we just graze, and he's ok with that. thank you steve!! taking care of asher is easy. of course i have meltdowns every now and then, but being him mama has been amazing...it's all the other little things that go along with being an at-home mama. the laundry, dinner, house cleaning, grocery shopping, paying bills, ministry things, showering...the list goes on and on...it's those things that unfortunately, some times don't get done. and that's ok...i just never thought it would be so hard to get everything done. i had grand schemes of doing things, starting projects and exercising and now, i just don't know where to fit them in.
i'll get the hang of things. i'll find a new rhythm to life...i just find it fascinating how so many women feel the same way and how no one told us how the little things become so hard...like finding time to go to the bathroom! i'm glad i went to the meeting. it truly made me feel less alone.
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