Thursday, January 15, 2015

Hard things

Being a mom is hard. But hard does not mean bad. It means learning and growing and stretching and becoming stronger. 
It means I will go without sleep. It means I will not have much if any privacy...even when using the bathroom. It means eating the leftover crusts from someone's sandwich and counting it as lunch. It means holding a baby while doing my workout. It means holding in my angry words and walking out of the room. It means saying yes when I really want to say no. 

It means loving and giving and finding strength beyond my own. It means losing myself and because I have lost myself, I have find myself...a better self than the one I lost.

My motto for 2015 is "dig down deep and do hard things." 

2 comments:

Unknown said...

I just caught up on all your posts. Reading your blog makes me want to hug my children more. :) It's so easy to take the easy road and complain about life...thank you for reminding me that being a mom is the most beautiful gift in the world!

Jill said...

I probably do more complaining than I should, but I am getting better at it.