Having a "Real" Moment

I felt the need to start this blog to share ideas I find or come up with, to challenge myself to do more with my daughters, and also to just be real about how it is to be a mom - from my perspective of course.

So here is my first "real" post or should I say honest. I mentioned to Will, while he has home for lunch, that I often breathe a sigh of relief after the girls are in bed. Anyone else out there do that? I know many of you do. And now I'm considering why I do that. It would be easy to say I'm exhausted and call it a day, but for me it's much more. I love being a mom and have always wanted to be, but it has literally turned my life upside down! I have always been quite independent, just ask my mom, used to dropping everything to go do whatever I wanted and whenever. I now have two beautiful girls who consume all but 2 hours of my day from 7:30 am until 8:30 pm, and they much prefer to be exactly where I am, trying to be involved in whatever I'm doing. I like to grab 'me' time when I can get it, but even that gets detoured with thoughts of them or buying them things or scrapbooking photos of them.

The reality is they are part of me and I of them, and that's that! No solutions or conclusions here, just another moment when we moms are in need of our Creator and Designer to re-mold us and re-shape us! Be blessed as you are a mom today!

Isaiah 64:8
Yet you, LORD, are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand.