We – myself, my three children, my sister, my neice – are tired. We all need to freebase some Vitamin B.
Sometimes it is the relentlessness of motherhood that gets to me.
I don’t want to be a victim about it. I have chosen this path and frankly, I wouldn’t want to do anything else, I just long to do this better. I am still learning how to find space for myself when we are all tired and struggling, when we all need to punch out, except there is no time clock.
All told it wasn’t a terrible day, just difficult, arduous.
Tonight we will all go to bed early and pray for deep and peaceful, restorative sleep. The truth is that the day in, day out, cooking and cleaning and being together of life can be so draining, but I don’t want to settle for just the work when there is love and joy and peace, when there is excitement and delight.
Hmm…maybe it was because you had a guest who wouldn’t leave last night…
Just thinking you might want to kick those late night visitors out at a more reasonable hour…
Sending you all the Good Tuesday vibes I can spare… You’re doing an amazing job, I applaud you every day from the other side of the ocean!
And you know, I punch out on the Mama Time Clock every night when I head downstairs, after tucking them in. Even though I know I’ll be clocking back in within a few minutes — there’s something very satisfying (to me) about punching out on an imaginary clock 🙂