Comments on: Don’t Mess With Mama http://justmotheringthrough.com/2010/01/24/dont-mess-with-mama/ Thoughts from a full time mom trying to maintain full time sanity while raising young kids Mon, 16 Jan 2012 06:21:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: haley http://justmotheringthrough.com/2010/01/24/dont-mess-with-mama/#comment-366 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:12:15 +0000 http://justmotheringthrough.com/?p=433#comment-366 amy i can SO relate… thank you for being vulnerable and sharing so the rest of us know we’re normal and we can all pray together that our kids will be too! :)

]]> By: Coasting anon http://justmotheringthrough.com/2010/01/24/dont-mess-with-mama/#comment-364 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 01:28:43 +0000 http://justmotheringthrough.com/?p=433#comment-364 Recently, I have found myself stating that 90% of the day I feel like I am a really good mother. But the other 10% of the day – you know, when I’m screaming obscenities at a paper bag in the middle of my kitchen because it won’t fit around the take-out container of food I have just spent an hour making for someone else and has now fallen on the floor where I can’t reach it because my son is hermetically sealed to me in a wrap since he’s teething and being very clingy these days – THAT 10% can kill you. Or at least get you really, really down.

I feel like no matter how much anyone told me that it was ‘normal’ to have these types of moments in my days as a mother, I never really truly believed I was anything other than crazy-town until recently when I started hearing other mothers say things things similarly to how I express them.

And no, it isn’t right, and yes, God is showing me the ugly parts of me and hopefully someday I can address them properly and heal them; but just *knowing* that I am not the only one brings me so much closer to being able to face that 10% of my day with (hopefully) a little more reverence and grace.

]]> By: Andrea http://justmotheringthrough.com/2010/01/24/dont-mess-with-mama/#comment-362 Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:32:50 +0000 http://justmotheringthrough.com/?p=433#comment-362 I once lamented to my mom that my poor kids hear yelling and I never heard it at home. She said, “you just don’t remember.” That made me hopeful.

Hang in there friend. I feel ya.

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