Today, I met my match, TODDLERS.

Today I met my match
Toddlers.
I’ve never been a cryer but ohhh motherhood has got me GOOD!

A lot of mornings I wake up already too tired to leap into the routine ahead. But I do it, minus the leaping.

I worry a lot, I carry the worlds weight on my shoulders, I worry so much about my kids, I worry we should be doing more, what, I don’t really know...
I don’t know enough about current affairs or politics or the house market... I’m an adult... shouldn’t I know about all of this?! At night I’m either falling asleep or wanting to stay up just to enjoy a moment of gathering thoughts or thinking about nothing, I’d take either.

The newborn stage is hard, we talk about the fourth trimester, but the toddler stage is TESTING. The juggling of care whilst working, getting yourself back into a rhythm of the old but new you.
Discovering, constant discovering.
These toddler years, as beautiful as they are, can be like looking at a miniature version of yourself and wanting to yell at them while simultaneously wanting to hug them.

In some ways it feels like I don’t have the right to still be so tearful, I’ve got amazing support and “the maternity leave” period is over now, so “you’ll be right.”
But the overwhelm is still there, it’s a whole bunch of things but when you finally untangle it they’re just little jobs and thoughts that have piled up.

It was all beginning to feel a little thankless today, there was fighting, yelling, food throwing, I was picking up toys and sighing to hold back tears when I felt a little hand on my shoulder that fell into a cuddle.
I know it shouldn’t be this way around, the comforting.
But in a day that felt so wrong I knew I had done something right.

Nothing like a cuddle from your toddler to bring the happy tears.

By our beautiful contributing writer - Jess Urlichs, Writer.

https://www.instagram.com/jessurlichs_writer

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