{5 things I wish I had of known 5 years ago about becoming a Mom}

1.  I wish I had of known just how hard it is to get pregnant.  My goodness... I was all doe eyed thinking I was the most fertile thing next to the Goddess Aphrodite and taking every precaution in the book when we first got married.  Yeah, apparently all that wasn't needed.  It took us months and months to get pregnant with Reese.  Why I thought it would happen in the first month off birth control ala Teen Mom, is beyond me.

2.  I wish I had of known just how FREAKING tired I would be after having a baby.  OH MY GOSH... I think I would have just decided to be a teen mom (when I had energy to spare) because I have no energy to deal with her.  If I could nap all day long, I would.  I am busted.  :)

3.  I wish I had of known just how hard it would be to work full time and be a mom.  Yikes, that was hard.  No one was winning.  I wasn't an effective employee, or a wife or a mom, for that matter.  Life really sucked back then, I don't know why I thought it would be easy.  Granted the first 20 minutes of the day were awesome (before my bosses got to work and I could have my coffee in peace and check my emails) but after that blessed 20 minutes, all hell broke loose.  I had to grocery shop on my lunch hour and take care of things for everyone else, ALL THE TIME.  It was crazyness.  Hats off to my mom friends that work, keeping up the hustler's struggle.  You are my heros, for sure!

4.  Alone time!  What's that?  No further text needed here!

5.  Lastly, I wish I had of known just how cool it would be.  Granted there are days where that girl just drives me INSANE.  She's 2, she is doing her job!  But there are some fantastic, funny, awesome, awkward moments during the day that I would not trade in for the world.  No matter how many times I have to sing "I like bugs" (That's from Yo Gabba Gabba) I still love it.  She is one cool little girl and  this job has been the most amazing, fulfilling, difficult, life-changing and defining jobs I have ever had in my entire life.

Now for MY mom, who suffered thru hundreds of words to get to this picture...

{yeah, I'm climbing a tree... SO WHAT!?!?} - Reese, age 2 and hardcore as ever!

 

 

Comments

[kim]

Love her! You are dead on, too! And I often grocery shop on my lunch break. Sigh. ;)