Working Mom's Hassel !!

In case you were wondering why working moms are stressed.... here is the list... 

1. We are late to mostly everything. Especially work, especially work. You can set 15 alarms, lay out clothes the night before and meal prep... but inevitably their will be a meltdown or someone will have to poop and next thing you know.... you are running 30 minutes behind speeding down the road answering questions about where babies come from and why excavator/train doesn't go on roads??????

2. We are tired. Most nights we come home from work already  exhausted with several more hours of dinner/dishes/homework/bath/bedtime routine. Not to mention the fact that one kid will take 45 mins to fall asleep while the other will wake up sixteen time in the night. 

3. We have to do laundry. Laundry. is. our. ENEMY. I folded 7 loads this weekend and I still have more..... all because I chose to skip last weekend. It is the devil and sometimes I think about just starting a fire in the yard with all the clothes and just starting fresh. 😳 

4. We are hungry. We are expected to feed our children nutritious meals when there are some days I don’t even get a breakfast or lunch. (Mostly my fault) And don’t get me started on all the Pinterest lunches I’ve packed for my kids only for them to take one bite. Every time we do actually sit down to eat. Someone needs more of something and we must get up... repeat this x20 and you’ve got an average dinner in our home.

5. We aren’t allowed to be sick. Sick days are never really used for ourself because we never really know when the stomach bug could wipe out our entire house. Who is the one that’s gonna clean up the puke **momma** 

6. We have to take our kids everywhere. To the park, to the doctor, to the pre school, to the pizza hut and list goes on.....

7. We must participate in  all the things. Pre school special events, trips are wonderful and are amazing memories made with our children. But working 40+ hours a week means you are exhausted all the time....

8. We must look pretty. Working moms, well women in general are expected to look put together. Ever heard of contouring and fake lashes... yup that’s a thing.... that women do.... every day... who in the holy heck has time for this?

9.  We must keep a clean house. The house.... well it will never be clean. Like.... never. You can try with all you might for your house to look like a actual home but just as you are about to pack the kids up for school drop off, right when you have twenty thousand things in your hand... your kid will spill their milk or your toddler will blow off the bread crumbs on the couch....

10. We have to work with the guilt that our children spend more time with others than with us. We are expected to work like we don’t have children and raise children like we don’t have careers. We are ALWAYS torn between excelling  in our career or rocking it as a mom. The balance between the two seems non-existent. Sometimes we roll up to work while drying our tears and fighting the urge to go snatch our babies up and take them home to cuddle forever. Sometimes we roll up to the school drop off line and practically push our children out the car cause we just need two seconds of silence before we get to work. 

However, at the end of the day.... when we finally lay down.... we thank the karma for this beautifully chaotic life we have and pray for extra grace for the next day... cause we know we are gonna need it.