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It costs nothing, and takes only moments a day.
“I am confident and growing in my parenting role.”
2. Have sex.
When you experience mom guilt, remember... You are enough.
Shift the ‘bad’ behavior into silly behavior.
If I had known what sleep deprivation really felt like before I had kids… ?
1. Don’t spill the beans too early.
Fatherhood made my husband into a feminist.
2. Carpe Diem every moment. Just worry about carpe diem-ing some moments. All? Not doable.
Tonight was a seemingly typical night in our house. It was not out of the ordinary. And yet, it was also monumental.
4. If I get dressed and put on makeup I'm going to go somewhere.
While you were sleeping, I just stared at you, in awe, that something so perfect could come from me. ?
More cooperation and connection are around the corner.
3. “I trust you.”
It’s overwhelming to have another person so completely dependent on you for everything, all of the time.
The voice you need to listen to is your own.
You would make any mama proud, parading around in that thing like you were born in it.
And I want them back as the mom I am today—slightly more stable and sane, with some idea of what I’m doing.
It’s the love that makes it the best and hardest, the scariest and the most beautiful. ?
A boy in my son’s preschool said some nasty comments to him…
