{"id":2844,"date":"2014-01-16T08:04:59","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T13:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=2844"},"modified":"2014-05-20T15:55:38","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T19:55:38","slug":"sometimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/16\/sometimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it\u2019s just all too much.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I don\u2019t feel cut out for this huge task I\u2019ve undertaken.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I am amazed by the strength of other mommies.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I just want to scoop my babies up and never let them go.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I am in awe of other mommy\u2019s patience.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I feel like my children need and deserve better.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I am jealous of how other mommies show never ending love.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I don\u2019t want to be a good role model and would rather lose all control of myself<\/p>\n<p>(Maybe sometimes I do\u2026)<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I want a do-over.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I feel overwhelmed by the responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I feel overwhelmed by how much I love my children.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I wish I could be everything and do everything.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I wish my kids could just stay little forever.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I feel selfish for feeling sad or overwhelmed when other mommies have it much worse.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes we all just need a friend, a little support.<\/p>\n<p>Someone to say \u201cyou\u2019re doing a great job\u201d and really mean it, to know that the person is not thinking the opposite in their head or silently judging our every move.<\/p>\n<p>Someone to say \u201cI know you\u2019re doing your best\u201d even on our most trying days when we feel like the worst mommy or completely inadequate to manage this huge task we have been given.<\/p>\n<p>Someone to say \u201call that matters is that you love your children\u201d on the days when we feel like we don\u2019t have enough to give or are failing our children.<\/p>\n<p>Someone to say \u201cIt\u2019s okay, they still love you and you haven\u2019t caused any harm\u201d when the guilt over reacting too harshly in the heat of a silly moment overtakes you.<\/p>\n<p>Someone to say \u201cIt\u2019s not going to kill them, let it go\u201d when you are worried about your kids and want to rush in and save the day.<\/p>\n<p>Someone to say \u201cI\u2019ve been there, I bought the t-shirt, we all survived and I wear that gosh darn t-shirt proudly,\u201d on days when we feel like giving up and like we have nothing else to give.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes a little support goes a long way and can make a huge difference in the lives of a mommy and therefore in the lives of her children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it\u2019s just all too much. Sometimes I don\u2019t feel cut out for this huge task I\u2019ve undertaken. Sometimes I am amazed by the strength of other mommies. Sometimes I just want to scoop my babies up and never let them go. Sometimes I am in awe of other mommy\u2019s patience. Sometimes I feel like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-mommys-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2846,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844\/revisions\/2846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}