Hey there, mama.

Do you ever wonder why it is so hard for you to be a mom?

Everyone else seems to be doing great, right? Everyone else has their hair done and gets to playgroups every week and posts pictures of their children giggling and eating their green leafy vegetables. Everyone else’s kids sit still during the church service and refrain from crying about the color of the laces on the new shoes their moms just bought them. Everyone else knows how to braid hair and pack adorable animal-shaped lunches, and everyone else remembers to actually put diapers in their diaper bag before an outing. Right?

So why is it so hard for you?

When we see “everyone else” doing okay, we start to think there must be something wrong with us. We must each be a lazy mom. Too lazy to get the toilets scrubbed. We must be selfish moms. Too selfish to happily make (and clean up) daily glitter crafts with the toddler.

Lazy.

Selfish.

We say these things to ourselves, confess them to our friends, and we begin to believe them. [Read more…]