Except when all the kids are crying and screaming because they’re 1) tired, 2) being hateful to each other and 3) all in bad “cycles<\/a>” and all you can do is say “work it out.” You’d think with the kids doing their own thing you’d have plenty of time to achieve your morning tasks.<\/p>\n Except when you have a baby who is ready for nap by 8:00 but just won’t go to sleep and requires way too much nursing, rocking, back rubbing and shushing before finally settling down. You’d think once the baby is quiet, the toddler is playing and the girls are doing school (on their own!) that you’d\u00a0finally<\/em> be ready to do something.<\/p>\n Except you have no ideas in your exhausted brain except your to-do list which all require thinking and imagination. You’d think that by this time you’d just throw in the towel and say “maybe later.”<\/p>\n Except when you have goals<\/a> and feeling like a failure<\/a>\u00a0again<\/em> just isn’t something you’re interested in so you force yourself to do\u00a0something<\/em>. You’d think once you got started\u00a0something would happen like it usually does.<\/p>\n Except when it doesn’t. And you’re still exhausted. And the kids are still whiney. And the motivation is still M.I.A. And two cups of coffee didn’t help. And the kids are restless. And it just doesn’t happen.<\/p>\n So you hit publish the boring details of your morning the life of a mommy with 4 kids.<\/p>\nThis is Monday.<\/h2>\n
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