Motherhood- Some days I want to cry

Motherhood is hard. there are long sweaty kid chasing and changing days where you feel like you don’t have it in you to be the mom you need to be. You think all you do is feed kids.. referee the battle over the pink ikea spoon, clean up the squeezed juice box messes that you swear you won’t ever give micah again… do dishes..play.. referee the fighting over the pink mermaid. intercept crayon from micah. repeat.

Through these years of having babies I’ve shared my heart through my blog… and so often I have experienced this amazing community of mamas out there through it. The days I feel so discouraged…I’ll share on social media my heart….and I’m quickly encouraged to know that I’m not the only one.. that there are other mamas out there that are having the same struggles but trying to be the best mom they can be!

All these years have gone by being shared on my blog….
and some days are HARD and I want to cry.
But I’m very proud of these years, because I can say..we lived that.
we did it. And those were awesome times.
plenty of hard moments but way more awesome ones. I seriously thought my heart was going to burst today when we took Sophia to first grade. The years have flown by! I’m so thankful for these sweeties… and even when it’s hard.. it is so worth it.

Motherhood is intense and exhausting and amazing all rolled into one.
You can have days you feel defeated in the store, ready to sit on the floor and cry (I might have done this. A lady then told me I had red string stuck to my bum. awesome.) You can feel like every mom with one child is thinking “she is crazy to have that many kids” or an older mom is thinking “she has no idea what she is doing.” But just hang in there mamas if you are in the thick of it. If you are feeling the pressure. I feel ya!

Try to focus on the funny and the fun. the silly and the sweet.
Here’s some of our recent funnies:
Sienna: “Mom if I tell you I want to marry a boy you can’t tell anyone.”
Sophia: “You don’t try and figure it out you just fall in love.”
Sienna: “I’m gonna marry all the boys.”
Sophia: “You can’t marry  more than one boy.”
Sienna: “I’m still gonna marry al the boys.”

Sienna has been singing the bob the builder theme song to the tune of ‘let it go.’
I have officially heard it all.

Something I say more than I think I should: “If you aren’t gushing blood no bandaid!”
Sienna trips.
bloody knees!
yesss! pain and joy all at the same time! pull out those dora bandaids and celebrate!
sophia: “awww I wish I fell.”
classic.

Sienna told me if a boy was rescuing her she would kiss him.
I replied with no you can’t kiss a boy unless he’s your husband.
Sophia replies with the fact that daddy says you can kiss a boy only if he says so.

Every single knock knock joke sienna says somehow includes the words poopy.

Micah’s new thing is sometimes, when random strangers say HIIIIIii.. he responds with…
“no.  ::shakes head::.”
hahaha.. shut downnnnnn.

He also responds to almost every question with yes.
He knows the theme song to Handy Manny and Jake and the Neverland Pirates.
And the “yet it gooo” part of let it go. he’s got that part down.

Write down the FUN moments you have with your kids, pull out your phone and put their cute comments in your notes app!..Video them playing, even if it’s just one day a week you make a mental note to do it! I’m so glad that I have these memories over the years. I realized that I had been slowing down with video taping micah…so we are making an effort to regularly capture some silly moments. Especially the breakdancing moves he is now rocking.

I love doing motherhood with all of you ladies. Thank you for being a part of my blog.
It still makes me gush and smile when I get e-mails from you guys telling me you’re pregnant..or that you have tried and loved the crock pot recipes..or that you threw a play date or party with an idea from my blog.. or made a cardboard house/castle like ours. Most of the e-mails start with “this might be weird, but I feel like I know you and we would totally be friends,….” But let me tell you..it’s not weird at all to me!
I love it. and am so encouraged by all of you!

If you have 15 minutes to spare, here’s a video I put together of some favorite memories
of my Motherhood so far. It feels like just yesterday ben and
I said I do and 12 months later had Sophia!