Why I Believe It’s OK To Say Motherhood Is Hard.

And complain sometimes, too.

I said to my sister on the phone the other day, “Sometimes I feel like I’m suffocating by my life”.

Now, before any of you start to worry that I am falling off the deep end, I’m not. But, some days, suffocation by my reality as a stay at home mom feels, well….real.

It’s so hard to imagine something before you begin it.

Kind of like how you can tell someone all day long that having a child is both the hardest and most beautiful thing they will ever experience.

How the newborn phase can make you feel like you are going to die from sleep deprivation (you won’t). But, until they experience it, it’s impossible for them to understand what you are saying. Basically, you waste your breath trying to convey an impossible thing to convey.

But, when I pick up the phone and call my sister and tell her I’m suffocating because I haven’t had time to myself in months, and the baby says “Mommy” 1,239 times a day, she gets it. She doesn’t judge.

Some days, she feels she is suffocating too.

There are people though, that don’t get it.