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How I Cope With Feeling Touched Out As A Mom Of 2
As a mom of 2, it is really easy for me to start feeling touched out. For anyone who may be new here, I have an almost 2-year-old (22 months) and a 4-year-old. So I have smaller children. And I’m also a stay-at-home mom so this mama is in mom mode 24/7. I can only speak from my perspective as a stay-at-home mom of 2, but there is a point by the end of each day when I start feeling overstimulated and touched out. Between tending to and breastfeeding my toddler all day and then trying to tend to everyone…
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How To Be A Grateful Stay-At-Home Mom
It took some time but I am able to finally feel content and grateful to be a stay-at-home mom. If you have been following me for a while and know about me, then you know being a stay-at-home mom was not something that I thought I would be. I never thought that I would be a stay-at-home mom. It was just something that I wasn’t interested in being. My mom and my grandma were working parents so I figured that I would also be a working parent once I had children. I had it all planned out on how things…
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How To Be A Happy Stay At Home Mom With A Baby
When I became a stay-at-home mom, I knew that I wanted to be a happy stay-at-home mom. If you have read about me, then you know that I kind of stumbled into being a stay-at-home mom. It did not come to me naturally. If you want me to be completely honest, I was terrible at being a stay-at-home mom at the beginning of this journey. The only thing I did right was keeping my daughter alive. Which is only part of being a stay-at-home mom. I used to think “How did other stay-at-home moms manage to get things done, keep…
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New Year’s Resolutions To Make As A Family
With the new year right around the corner, I like to make some New Year’s Resolutions as a family. We will be heading into the new year as a family of 4 this year which is really exciting since last year, I was pregnant with our baby girl. There are so many things to look forward to next year such as our baby girl turning the big one. And my older daughter possibly starting Preschool. She has been asking me a lot recently about going to school so I have been considering getting her enrolled early so she can get…
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The Best Way To Move Forward Is To Take A Step Back
Is the best way to move forward by taking a step back? If you all read my previous post on surviving the first trimester with a toddler, then you will know that I had to take a step back in order to navigate my new normal of being pregnant while taking care of my daughter. Why was I forcing myself to continue to do things when I knew I wasn’t feeling the best? As moms, we have a tendency to want to overachieve and want to make sure we doing everything we can for our babies. I feel like this…
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Break Free From Your Self Limiting Beliefs
When you hear the term “self-limiting beliefs”, what comes to mind? Do you envision someone going to a job every day that they absolutely can’t stand because they are afraid to look for another? Or maybe it is that person who starts a project only to throw in the towel a few days later because they don’t think they can finish what they started? If I’m still not getting to you, what about that person who waits until the last minute to finish a project because they believed that their work wouldn’t be good enough anyway? All of these scenarios…
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Get A Good Night’s Rest With The Sutera Dream Deep Pillow
I found a way to get a good night’s rest and I did it with the Sutera Dream Deep Pillow. When I became a new mom, sleep became a luxury with a breastfeeding newborn. Sleep became something I took for granted because I thought I would always get plenty of it one way or another. Boy was I wrong. When I was up throughout the night breastfeeding my daughter when she was younger, my sleep schedule was thrown completely off and I struggled with getting good quality sleep that would actually leave me feeling rested. There is definitely a difference…
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Trading My Bad Habits For Good Habits
Habits are so hard to break so I have settled for trading some of my bad habits for better and good habits. A lot of us have habits that are so ingrained that we don’t even realize that we are doing them. For instance, I have a really bad habit of biting my nails that I have been doing since I was a kid. It has got to the point that I have been biting my nails for so long, that I don’t even realize when I have my finger in my mouth. It is a disgusting habit that I…
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Overcoming Postpartum Insomnia As A New Parent
So I had horrible postpartum insomnia as a new parent. In fact, I still have insomnia and my daughter is 18 months old now. It’s bad enough that I already dealt with insomnia before I was a mom, but when I became a mom, it only intensified. My fiance on the other hand slept like a baby. Here I am lying awake in the bed at night and whenever I would look over at him, he would be sleeping so soundly and even snoring. Yet I am awake stressing about every little noise our daughter makes and wondering why can’t…
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Stop Saying You’re Fine When You Are Not
It’s time to stop saying you’re fine when you are not. You may be experiencing one of the worst weeks, but when asked “How are you?”, you reply by saying something along the lines of “I’m fine” or “I’m ok”. Yet fine is the complete opposite of how you feel, yet the words just came tumbling out your mouth before you could say how you were actually feeling. You are not physically sick or injured so it’s not that. There is a roof over your head and enough food to feed your family, so it can’t be that either. You…
