I love you, all of you. You are my world but my not my whole life. I won’t apologize for work pulling attention from you sometimes. I won’t apologize for calling a babysitter so your Dad and I can go out just the two of us. I won’t apologize for hanging out with my friends the few times I get to without you around or taking a weekend away to focus on just me. These things all need to happen. I know you miss me, and trust me when I say I miss you too. But in order for me to be the best Mom to you, I need to be the best version of me which means I can’t allow myself to fully drown in motherhood.
Read MoreOkay, guys I wasn’t going to make a post about Covid-19 but here we are… I’m choosing to write something because I am sooooo sick of seeing people posting about others not following the “rules” for social distancing and judging others for things like going grocery shopping more than once a week or for going outside with more than one person. I get it – you are frustrated. I’m right there with you. This whole thing is scary, and we don’t know how to handle it because there is no guidebook for us.
We want social distancing to be over soon and things to get back to “normal” and we’re frightened. I understand that. I get that you want your life to return to the way it was before, but the sad reality is that it’s simply not going to happen for the foreseeable future. I don’t like it any more than you do.
It breaks my heart that new Moms are stuck at home without being able to share this exciting and hard time with friends and family and lean on people to support them during this time. I get sad every time I think about a bride needing to postpone their wedding, a day that they have probably been thinking about forever.
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