Calling all the failures, the Bad Moms, the frustrated women of the suburbs.
Perfect mothers need not read on.
Do you ever feel like a complete and utter failure. Like every thing you touch is a total disaster? Then you will understand my feelings of last week. You are my people.
Here’s the thing. Some days I feel like ….SuperMom. Yes, like Wonder Woman! Like I’m some perfect kind of hybrid cross of Martha Stewart and Super Girl. Nothing can stop me. (Clearly, I’m easily impressed.) This is what an almost Superhero day might look like in my house:
The fridge is full of groceries.
I have a plan for dinner.
Hair looks good.
Make-up on point.
Band-aid is found at the bottom of my purse when required.
Remembered to send in that last minute field trip form.
I managed to knock out a blog post or two.
Snuck in coffee with a girlfriend.
Got the kids to their activities on time.
Made sure the kids homework was done and I’m pretty sure they were in bed before 11:30pm.
Top it all off with an entire load of laundry completed and I even did a sit up or two!!
All this equals one puffed up and proud of myself Mama.
Other days? Failure alert.
The cats nails are so long they get caught in the new carpet with every other step.
I managed to get out of the house on time, but I have chocolate on my jeans. Looks kind of like poop, but don’t worry, I checked. It’s chocolate.
Hair? It’s in a pony tail with enough dry shampoo to start the next environmental crisis.
There are no groceries in the fridge so lunch for the kids was 2 loonies and a toonie. I hope 5 bucks still gets you something at the cafeteria.
One kid was late for dance and I snapped at the other one for no reason at all. She should have just shushed.
Stress ate half a carton of Hagen Daz at 11pm and now it’s 3am and I can’t sleep.
Only exercise I got today was beating myself up…. for beating myself up.
That day was not a good day.
That day was a big fat failure landing me squarely in the feeling like a Bad Mom, losing at this parenting stuff category.
But you know what? Its normal.
Shit happens and tomorrow is another day.
Three cheers for the real moms, because this what really happens in the suburbs.
I so feel the same way. I never feel like I have accomplished all that I want to but just spend my time putting out fires and just getting the minimum done. A good day is making sure the kids are in clean clothes, have lunches/supper, get to and get home from school,do homework, have baths and get to bed :).
It’s hard being ‘up’ everyday. Even those with a paid position full time usually get 2 day off. 😉
Haha yes this is real life! Some of my most annoying times are the idiot days where I literally drop/spill everything I touch. All I do is yell out “UGH! What the hell is wrong with me?!!” all day long. lol
I have those days, the worst is when I’ve been so busy at work and then when the kids are in bed, I lay there and feel guilty for the lack of quality time we had that day
Clearly I am your people. lol. Shit happens. A lot. Glad I have two very dear mom friends who keep it real for me too.
Sounds familiar to most of us I guess, we’re all human and unfortunately my super powers often go astray too. 🙂
It’s why I only buy the child cookies I don’t like 😀
Yep tomorrow is always another day!
Yes, I think we can all relate.
You are totally normal and if we didn’t have our bad days we would not be normal!!
Lol @ “don’t worry, I checked” 😉 Trust a mom to check this without thinking twice!
I can totally identify with this post. somedays the stars just don’t align.
Sounds like the normal super mom to me. Definitely not a failure! If there were no obstacles, moms wouldn’t have to save the day…as Super Moms do on a daily basis.
Yup,that’s pretty much a normal day here in my home….tomorrow will be better
The older I get, the more I find myself saying “tomorrow is another day”. And “I tried” lol