Being a Mom to twins is the best, most rewarding yet challenging job I have ever faced. I am constantly running in a million directions, chasing after one that runs this way and the other that runs the opposite way. I stay at home part time with the Wee Ones and I would have it no other way. I have the perfect balance between being Super Forey Mom and Melissa. But there are many changes that I have faced over the past 16 months that I always said would never happen to me. I have always had a circle of friends that stayed at home full time with their children and I always wondered why they never had time for me. Why did it take them days to call me back? Why were they always so tired? And what in the world did they do all day? Shop? Playdates? Eat lunch with the other Moms? What a life!!! Well...now I know! Being a SAHM is H-A-R-D!!! It takes me literally all day just to get my bed made, a shower, brush my teeth and fold a load of laundry! Taking time out for myself are moments few and far between! Would I change it? Not for all the money in the world!!!! Is it rewarding? You better believe it!!!! I recently read a post from A Blonde Walks into a Blog and I had to share this article that she posted!
I have always said, "I will never lose myself when I have children. I will ALWAYS have time for my friends. My life will not change that way." HA! HA! HA! The joke is on me! I am saying all of this really for myself.....I try very hard to make time for myself, the things I love (besides my babies), my girlfriends, and just being me! It is a challenge for me and I feel that over the past 16 months, I have done the best I can. My girls and I have coffee dates and Girls Night Out every month!!! I have a date with Big Pappa at least once a month (thanks Nana and Grammy) and Big Pappa and I are taking a little trip without the Wee Ones for a WHOLE WEEKEND in August!!! I challenge each of you Mommies to take time out for yourself and your friends if you do not do so already! It doesn't mean that you love your children any less if you want time to yourself...it does not make you bad parents if you go on dates/vacations without your children....and you are not a bad Mommy if you go out with your girlfriends. We cannot loose ourselves just because we have created human life!!! One day...the babies are not going to need us SNIFF SNIFF and then what will we do??? Take care of YOURSELF Mommies!!!! We deserve it....we have the HARDEST job in the world!!!!!
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