A Manic Mom Thought: at 2 AM
🤪 Manic Mom Monday 💜
Another Monday is here.
Well… technically it’s 2 AM, so Monday has barely introduced itself and I’m already making plans. 😂
Lillie goes back to school in the morning.
Sophia and Chloe have already been back since the 10th, but tomorrow is the day I lose my last little bit of extra help around the house.
No extra little hands helping with Sawyer and the dogs.
No one to help carry the diaper bag to the car.
Just me and my boy for a quiet breakfast and lunch before we head out into the Monday madness.
Then it’ll be me, Sawyer, a purse, a diaper bag, a bottle bag, and whatever other collection of things apparently has to accompany a toddler everywhere.
😂We’ll grab a frozen coffee and hit the car rider lines.
Then back home to make dinner.
Terry has a new bowling league in Gainesville, so he won’t be home until around 10 or 11.
Sophia needs picked up from color guard at 7.
Somewhere in between, there will be homework, dinner, dishes, bedtime, probably somebody needing something they absolutely could have found themselves, and my usual attempt to get everyone into bed at something resembling a reasonable hour.
And somewhere around 8:47 PM, I may start feeling a little bit like a single mom, wrangling 8 kids instead of just 4.
Not because I am one.
Just because sometimes one parent is carrying the whole evening while the other is somewhere else doing their own thing.
And that’s okay.
I love that we have our own things.
It’s just one of those nights where Mom has to keep all the plates spinning until Dad comes home and takes a few of them off the stick. 😂
The Cat in the Hat made it look so easy.
So here’s to Monday.
To school starting back.
To quiet breakfasts with my boy.
To car rider lines and frozen coffee.
To homework, dinner, bedtime, and all the little things in between.
And to remembering that I don’t have to do today perfectly.
I just have to keep moving through it.
One kid.
One bag.
One errand.
One screaming toddler in the car.
One cup of coffee at a time. ☕️💜
Here’s to another Manic Mom Monday. 😜
Until next time…
Keep building a beautiful life between coffee & chaos,
💛 Tiffany Davis
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