Hope for Moms In the Crazy Cycle

Yesterday I slipped my oldest daughter’s Missions Prayer Card into the back her baby book.

Then I cried.

Not because of the trip. But because the time had passed so quickly and it just seemed so ironic. Here I was, cramming this card into the back of a baby book that clearly had no page for “college years.”

A younger mom called me this week. She was full of fear over the behavior of her little one.

The child was into everything, and not responding well to training.

But in reality, this child was not bad. The mom was just tired and desperate.

Moms of little ones, I am here to tell you that this too shall pass. Yes, you are in a crazy cycle, but it ends, this stage you’re in!

I know that you are caught up in the moment of the constant “No’s” and “Come heres”, the “Don’t touch!” and the thousand other things you say and do to toddlers.

You teach, train, correct, chase, wipe, clean, play, carry, feed and then do it all again. Every day. Same things, same surroundings, no changes.

Some of you have put your own dreams on hold and you wonder if this is what your life will always be.

And you get tired of the mundane. It is tiring.

And in your exhaustion you can lose focus.

THIS will end, this time of training and whirlwind of disaster averment before they crack their heads on the coffee table or fall down the stairs adrenaline rush of a stage you’re in.

This stage can be a blur.

So before you spin out of control or into dispair, stop and breath and see it for what it is. Passing. 

Take some time for yourself to add beauty to your life so you can jump back on this short merry-go-round of a time you’re in.

Go for a walk. Change up your scenery. Read a book. Buy some flowers. Do lunch with a friend.

Do what it takes to clear your vision so you can be all there.

Because they are leaving before you know it.

And you’ll be wishing you could add pages and addendum’s to their baby books like I am.