Get It Together!

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I feel like I spend over half my days wishing I could “just get it together”.  Tell me I’m not alone!  It’s just that this parenting thing is HARD, you know?  We’ve got a lot of stuff in over favor–stable job, good home, relative health.  All of these are huge blessings, I know.  We’ve also got stuff that makes our journey trickier, such as no family to help on a regular basis and no extra money to “hire out” (babysitting, take-out, hiring someone else to tackle house projects).  Whatever, life is what it is and you roll with it, but when the dish pile is high and the clean underware stash is low, I find myself fantasizing about a more pulled together daily life.

My husband and I were hashing out life the other day, as we are so good at doing 😉  He made the offhand comment, “You know, we do have our lives together.”

I, of course, gave him the you-have-three-heads look.

He said, “Our kids are fed and they are happy” (this is discounting any pervasive screaming fits while my daughter is working her way through teething.  I also personally think she is just ticked that she is almost one and has no hair–I know I am).

Oh.

“We’ve got a house and the yard is mowed.”

Oh.

“We have a car.  We remembered to take the car in for inspection.”

Oh.

“We have friends and a good church.”

Oh.


So wait–maybe the problem isn’t that “my life isn’t together”, it’s that my standards are too high??  I’d say maybe I should stop seeking perfection and start being thankful that my life isn’t more Teen Mom, but the thing is, I don’t think I should compare myself to anyone, good or bad.  If our basic needs are met and the kids are basically happy, I’m thinking I should call it a day and just be grateful.  Now maybe someday I’ll “get it together”, but until then, here’s hoping I’m just content with the current mess 😉

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Meredith

Meredith blogs at The Mom of the Year, where she dedicatedly earns her title one epic parenting fail at a time, offering quick, relatable laughs for fellow parents and all their empathizers. She has been part of several best-selling anthologies, featured on prominent sites such as Huffington Post, In the Powder Room and BlogHer, and loves her role as the Executive VP/Operations Manager of The BlogU Conference. When she's not breaking up fights over Legos and juice boxes, she remains fully committed to sharing a less serious look at the world of parenting.

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