Yesterday, I was woken up at 6:00 AM to my three year old climbing on top of me in bed, while my 1.5 year old was already screaming to be let out of his crib. I was instantly over the day before it even started. I dragged myself to the kitchen, made them some quick pancakes, and immediately reached for my phone. I sat there drowning them out with mindless scrolling rather than interacting with them. I just felt this desperate need to shut out the world because I didn't get th

I am currently staring at a pile of jeans that have been sitting on my couch for 3.5 days. It looks like a HUGE pile of jeans when it actually is 5 pairs of my husband's jeans, 3 of my own and maybe a few kids jeans sprinkled in. It sounds small enough to have done in 5 minutes and yet, there it is sitting on my couch staring at me like a lazy couch potato roommate. There was a time when a pile like this would make me feel like a total failure as a stay-at-home mom. I’d look