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Meet Califf Creations: A Gloriously Flawed Mother

I am the mother of a wonderful little boy who is two-years-old with another boy on the way. Today I woke up overwhelmed, feeling overworked, underappreciated and useless. I had to face my day off center and frantic. This is never a good way to begin a new day, especially when you need to be patient caring for two crazy little ones! What do I do when I feel off like this?

Picture of Myself and My Son

The honest answer is that I do nothing.

I push through, making my feelings worse until I can put the boys down for a nap and try to re-center myself. Perfection is not a word that describes me!

I am a gloriously flawed mother

This all started last night with feeling alone and more than just a little crazy. Right when I was feeling close to the tipping point, my son decided to head bump me square in the same eye he had nearly poked out the previous night. So, of course, I started to cry. I mean, it hurt! The pain, however, wasn’t the only reason tears began to flow. I felt so defeated because, let’s face it, being a parent is hard.

A mother is supposed to be strong and resilient, yet loving and kind

We are expected to maintain a perfectly clean home, feed our children all organic homemade foods, nurture their emotions and creativity, yet still be firm and set boundaries so they aren’t “spoiled”. Somehow we are supposed to do all this while still maintaining our own personal health and relationships with our partner, family, and friends.

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Dinner in a hurry!

I said it before and I will say it again, I am nowhere near perfect.

I am gloriously flawed. In the past, I have let that get me down by thinking that I’m not doing enough. My head would tell me, “you can always do more”. This is the beginning of my journey to simplicity, happiness, and freedom. No more thinking that I need to do more. Instead, I want to think of everything I do and know it is enough because I did the best I could.

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A blur of activity: The Busy Mom

Nobody tells you when you first become a mother about how much pressure you’ll feel. How you’ll constantly feel like a failure, like the only one who is feeling that way. The secret is, ALL parents go through this! you are not alone. So, while sorting through my emotions, I came to a decision. In order to save my own sanity, and possibly even save some other parents’ sanity, I decided to share the nitty-gritty of parenting. I will not shy away from talking about how the temper tantrums make ME feel, along with how I deal with them and calm the kids down. I’ll share the good, the bad, and the in between, how I keep myself and my family healthy and happy. I’ll share how I integrate creativity and imagination into all aspects of our lives from crafting to finding time to exercise to hiding veggies so that picky toddler doesn’t know he is eating them. There will be laughter, tears, arts and crochet, recipes and cooking, and a whole lot of insanity (because let’s face it, that’s parenting). This is my journey and, like me, it is gloriously flawed and wonderfully inadequate.

 

 

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Lucy At Home UK gentle parenting blogger