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These are a few of my favourite things 🎵 I know you sang it too don't lie 😂🤷‍♀️ . This is an instagram moment. All snuggled up (minus the teen, wouldn't that be a sight!) Hailey has even given us a rare on camera smile. . . . #blendedfamily #caughtoncamera #specialneedsfamily

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These are a few of my favourite things 🎵 I know you sang it too don't lie 😂🤷‍♀️ . This is an instagram moment. All snuggled up (minus the teen, wouldn't that be a sight!) Hailey has even given us a rare on camera smile. . . . #blendedfamily #caughtoncamera #specialneedsfamily

Alright time to get real. . These last two weeks have been hard. Like, really hard. . . Nothing in our daily routine has changed, same amount of playdates, same amount of grocery shops, and lunches made. Same extra curriculars filling up our late afternoons. Same emails sent, and phone calls answered. . But these last two weeks were harder than the two weeks before and the two weeks before that. . . These last two weeks felt like I had bricks on my shoulders and fog in my brain. I felt like I couldn't do anything properly, nothing was on schedule, the kids seemed like they were testing me and my husband seemed to not even notice I was there at all. I've been feeling angry and guilty and sad and overwhelmed and exhausted and just....alone. The days seemed to slip by slowly and similarly as if it was the same day repeated. My feelings and wellbeing put aside every minute of every day. My needs ignored and even scoffed at. With every day passing this house felt smaller and smaller until it was almost suffocating me. A never ending cycle of eat, yell, sleep. . . Repeat. . . So you know what I did? I took a day. Not even a full day really, I took 5 hours away from my kids, away from my house, doing something I enjoyed because I enjoyed it. Not because my kids wanted to, not because it had to be done, not for anybody but myself. 5 hours I took and the fog has already started to lift, the bricks on my shoulders are slowly turning to dust and I feel like I can do two more weeks of hardcore momming. . . Thats what it is really. Moms are hardcore. We start at the crack of dawn and work until well past dusk. We predict every need, physical, mental, emotional and act accordingly. We do the planning, the cleaning, the cooking, the playing, the changing, the helping with homework, the driving to activities, the playdates, the bedtimes. We work ourselves into this foggy state, and are rarely allowed to just decompress. . . Today I realized, far too late in my motherhood, that I need that. My family needs me to do that. I can't run on an empty tank and pour from an empty cup. 5 hours is all it took for me to go from 0% to a good 65%. . Hey it's a start. #momsmentalhealth

So happy I got to chat with the ladies at the @ygtmama and @mamasformamas booth at the #westcoastwomensshow and pick up a copy of "You've Got This Mama" that I'm going to read with my glass of wine tonight! It was great to hear what the amazing volunteers at #mamasformamas are doing to support mamas in need by directing them to available services, providing toiletries and baby necessities, offering homelessness and preventative supports among so many other wonderful things. . . . Go check out their IGs >>>>>@mamasformamas <<<<< >>>>>@ygtmama<<<<<<

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