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Hey! At first I wanted to respond, not thinking I had much to share, but just cause “this needs a bump.” And it does! But after thinking about it for 10 seconds, I realized that the last 24 hours have been an epic mom life challenge! I’m just so used to it that I don’t look at it as hard sometimes, just so I can cope.

I also took a roundtrip work trip yesterday....4 hours each way! And I did that because I’m a mom and can’t stay the night for sake of the LO. Staying the night would have been so much more sane and easier, but it throws DH’s schedule way off if he does drop-off. So several times a month I pull these epic road trips/workdays for the sake of 2-3 hours of meetings and “balancing” the family needs.

And then there’s the car seat shuffle from my car to the rental car and back again, all in the congested downtown where my work and work parking garage is. Gotta have the car seat loaded in my rental car so I can leave directly from daycare, so I can shave time off the trip to actually do it all in one freaking day.

I have to say that I have yet to not arrive at the work meeting with time to spare and totally rock the meeting, even though inside I’m thinking, “do these old white men even have an idea of what it took me to get here today?”

So yeah, I hear ya! I forgot how easy it used to be without DS. But it’s totally worth it! ️

ETA: I also have totally stopped to nap and did tons of pumping-while-driving when I was still nursing. Those days were nuts!

I thought it was just me this week on the struggle bus! My husband was on the other side of the country, we adopted a puppy (4 months) and we have a 19 month old-I work full time. My in-laws were even here and I was ready to go nutty. I’m jealous of your nap! Take them when you get them!

Ugh, I feel you. My husband was gone all week for work, so I was solo parenting. He got back late Thursday and now my ILs are here for a visit. I’m 22 weeks pregnant and exhausted while also having insomnia. And I got about five hours of sleep last night because my son kept waking and seems to be developing a cough. I SO wish I could take a day off from work to just do nothing, but I have to save all my PTO for “maternity leave” 🙄