Mom, It’s not that Serious.

Anyone else feel like the mom pressure is getting to them? I get it, everything is super important. I mean the type of juice we pick could ultimately lead to the destruction of our beautiful family. Add the fact that we face thousands of decisions like that every day and anyone would be ready to snap. When every decision becomes life or death, we walk around with the weight of that on us constantly. Let’s remember that we’re only human and life is fun! We don’t have to get everything right, luckily because we won’t. Let’s give ourselves a break and enjoy the ride.

When my middle daughter, Lucy, was in kindergarten, we were running late to school. I was frantically flying around grabbing shoes and throwing granola bars in a lunch box, barking orders. Lucy stopped in her tracks and starred at me. “Mom,” she said “It’s not that serious. Toby is late every day . . . nothing happens.”

I realized she’s right. The stakes aren’t as high as I make them out to be in my mind. So we’re late, it happens. If I can chill out maybe, we can have a good morning in spite of being late.

I’m going to be blogging about the lightness and levity of motherhood. This is the good stuff and if we stress ourselves out about all the little things, we may just miss it. Let’s sit back, have a coffee, if you’er into that, I’ll stick with hot chocolate, and try to lighten up.