I think I am going a little crazy and I am just going to put it out there. Being a mom is so freakin hard. I thought I had a hard stressful job but there is a part of me that just longs to be able to go back to work. And yet my "mommy" job is not stressful at all. It is just NEVER ENDING. I dont get lunch breaks. I cannot shut my office door and turn off the phone to get work done. I dont have the weekends off. And when I am tired from a long days work, I dont get to turn in early and catch up on some much needed sleep.
Having a preemie during cold and flu season has not made things easier. I have to keep Ryland away from people and especially from little kids. So that means during the day, the only people who are home are stay at home moms, but I cannot hang out with them because they have kids and the women who do not have kids are away at work. And then at night, when I can get out of the house without Ryland, all of my non-mom friends are too tired to hang out from working all day. It is amazing to me how every day I can love something so much and dislike something so much. I didnt know being a mom was so amazing and so lonely.
That is the one word that sums up so much of what I am feeling right now, very alone. I dont have many friends that are moms and the few I do went back to work which is incredibly ironic because I use to watch a few of them stay at home with their kids all day and wonder how they do it but knew that once I did at least I would have some good company.
Complain complain complain. I know that is all I am doing while having a job that many women long for. I am just trying to find MY place in this new life.
Sunday, January 27, 2008
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Alright so I know I am one of the ones who went back to work on you! Hang in there...we will get some time together really really soon. It is a very hard job, I give you a ton of credit because I never had to do it the way you have had to. It is lonely at times too, but very soon it will be another season and you will have good and not so good memories of what you are experiencing now! I love you so much and this is making you that much more of the increcidible woman that you already are!
Kelli :)
Way to go, Adrienne. May you and Matt find balance and a supernatural synergy of partnership in this new and difficult first season of parenthood. Hang in there, sister.
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