*Warning* You should probably know me pretty well before reading the following, or you might truly think I'm going crazy and am unhappy with my life. :) Neither are true...at least not entirely :). Just some venting filled with comic-relief for my own benefit. :)
Why is it that it takes over 12 years of schooling to get us ready for college/real life AND we must go through many additional years of schooling to start a career (in many cases), yet we are just thrown into parenthood (one of the most important and hardest roles on earth) with simple statements like, "parenting is the hardest and most rewarding thing you'll ever do"............ooookaaayyy................what does that even mean? To those of you who don't yet have kids...I will tell you what that means...absolutely NOTHING! Nobody has ANY idea what that means until they themselves experience parenting. No REAL useful training is given before you are thrown into the crazy roller coaster ride that is parenthood. It is pure insanity coupled along with pure elation all at the same time. Scenarios happen every day that make you say to yourself, "what the crap! What do I do with that? How am I supposed to know how to handle that?", followed by an eventual inescapable need to make a decision...and THEN and only then do you find out if your decision worked. If not...well, too bad for the kid who has somehow inhumanely become a guinea pig since, "all you can do is your best". What in the world!?! Does this seem messed up to anyone else? Lately, I've seriously come to the conclusion that I may just not be fit to be a mom, and should not expose anymore innocent spirits to the crazy lab I call my life (as that is what it has truly become). I also have started wondering how in the world so many women do it. How do you do it!?! How do you go through these crazy first years and somehow convince yourselves that you can handle more!?! Since I have always wanted a somewhat large family and will inevitably ignore all the obvious signs that I probably shouldn't, I WILL have more. This being the case, I see a very nice and clean stark white rubber room in my future. :)
"They're coming to take me away ha ha, they're coming to take me away ho ho hee hee ha ha, to the funny farm, where life is beautiful all the time, and I'll be happy to see those nice young men in their clean white coats and they're coming to take me away ha haaaaa...to the happy home, with trees and flowers and chirping birds and basket weavers who sit and smile and twiddle their thumbs and toes, and they're coming to take me away HA HA!" -Dr. Demento
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I hear ya sista!! Some days the only thing that keeps me going is knowing bed time keeps drawing nearer. That and sometimes bad words escape my lips and take with them some of the frustration. But hello! You're a great mom!! Cody is awesome (and very very active :)) . Hang in there, you'll have an amazing mom day soon!
At the end of the night yesterday Darin said, "You're such a good Mom." I said, "What are you talking about? I have no patience and by the end of the day I don't even want to remember that I have children. Darin said, "Well, the kids are still alive. That's good." And seriously, Melissa, a lot of days that is ALL I am going for. Yes Yes Yes, motherhood is madness.
aahhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! This is by far, hands down, absolutely the best blog you've ever posted. I loved the above comment. "They're alive!" so true so true. the fact is, the more I have, the less I stress. Before I had kids "pick your battles" meant something totally different than it means to me now. Now it means "the children are going to be the boss of me anyway. I can either go out kicking and screaming, or go out with a smile and a tiny bit of dignity." Most of the time that is my biggest decision of the day.
And AMEN. It's funny, friends always say how busy they are or they've had a rough week etc etc etc and though I don't hate them for it I sometimes think, you don't yet know what life is or what busy is. I am trying hard to choose to be a kid myself. Stop and play games even though it might get boring. Be a little more patient and kind. She will only be this little once and I want to always hold her close to me. It helps me get through the hard times because I know what a blessing she is and that she is the perfect example of perfect love etc. Hey what's your email so I can invite you to our pizza party?
I could not agree more, you are funny!!! I dont see how people have more, i think they just forget!!!
To To funny! Just wait one day you wake up and your the parent of a teenager! Also one day they don't seem to need you and you feel mighty unimportant with this unedjucated degree of motherhood and then there are the moments that make it ALL worth it! Hang tough Mel.
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