The parenting challenges of stay at home mom survival are well beyond our wildest delusions of rainbows, butterflies, and blissful momdom. When your schedule includes cleaning an ungodly amount of sputtered baby food, peeling off crusty abandoned play dough, and imagining a warm sunny beach vacation while changing the most explosive diaper you’ve ever seen in your life…those joyous dreams of stay at home mom life are long forgotten. No amount of mom or parenting advice prepared you for this. Frustration, anger, and hopeless can soon creep in or worse…detonate.
The scary realization that I NEEDED to make some changes ASAP in my stay at home mom life came one innocent, sunny Tuesday morning while cleaning the kitchen…
I had put our little one down to sleep for her first nap and I started cleaning. I cleaned and cleaned and cleaned. Soon, I had everything off of every single countertop in the kitchen and every item and drawer from the refrigerator in the living room. And when I say everything, I mean everything.
“If I could just get this one more thing cleaned…”
“One more thing.”
“One more thing…”