Today I am linking up/co-costing with my dear friend Kara-Kae and her series called: Messy Motherhood! She is such a fabulous woman and an amazing mother. And today she challenged us to share about loving yourself.
And I’ve got to tell you, when I first heard the topic I was like, shoot…I have NO clue! ha! It seems I find on a daily basis that I’m beating myself up over all the fails.
Didn’t finish start the laundry.
Dishes piled to the ceiling.
I smell of three day old vomit.
My kids are still rockin’ pjs and it’s 3pm.
We’re out of breakfast food so they ate cake.
The tv was on all day.
My kids threw an epic size tantrum at the store today.
I mean the list can go on! It’s just so easy to look at other women and mothers and feel they have it all together. Sundays are the worst for me. Somehow, no matter how hard I try, we barge into church with hair strewn everywhere, snotty noses, and mis-matched or wrong sized clothes on. Then I’ll look over and see another family with their kids in a straight line, well groomed and in matching monogrammed clothes. How is that even possible?!?!
But do you see where my flaw is?
I am spending so much time beating myself up over the failures that I’m missing my children grow up. I am focusing on our lack of planning when running out of breakfast and being forced to feed them cake, when I could turn it into a party or special occasion. They don’t know the difference.
Who am I more concerned about? The other mothers assumedly “looking down” on me, or trying to make a difference in these four precious lives God has entrusted to my care. I’m the only mother they have. They have NO clue that every house doesn’t have a pile of clean laundry that challenges the height of Everest. To them we have the coolest climbing mountain around!
So let’s vow to stop beating ourselves up over our lack of perfection. (News flash: nobody is perfect) Let’s start focusing on loving ourselves and in turn we can really see what is important…our babies.
What’s one way you’ve found to love yourself through this thing we call Messy Motherhood?
Please link up with us and share you’re heart today!
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Can you send me an email, text message, smoke signals every day telling me that NO ONE IS PERFECT??? I forget that a lot.
Well, I do march my children into church in a straight line, but that’s because there is only one in the line currently. 😉
I like the quote “comparison is the thief of joy,” and it is applicable to motherhood. Happy, healthy children who are being pointed to the Lord is what we are after at our house!
Loved this! Isn’t it the truth on Sundays!? We are always running in at the last minute with bugers and milk on their faces while I do my makeup in the car. And don’t even get me started on picking them up or dropping them off at school. Thanks for being real and “messy” 🙂