Hello! Long time no comment, I'm Alyssa. (I can't imagine the grief you've been experiencing this year Nic, and sending all the love towards you and your family). I'm an almost 35 year old full time mother of twin girls who are 3.5. It has been more or less all consuming of my life. I love many things like yoga, reading, running, deep friendships, hiking, camping...and yet I consistently feel like I don't have enough time/energy/space for these things. I'm hoping this continues to shift and change with time, but life with them still feels really intense most days (: I love having honest conversations about the experience of motherhood and the actual realities it involves and the feelings it brings up. I feel like we as a culture lie to each other about the experience of motherhood and it's actually quite damaging to those who then decide to become mothers and feel somewhat blindsided by the realities of it.
Hello! Long time no comment, I'm Alyssa. (I can't imagine the grief you've been experiencing this year Nic, and sending all the love towards you and your family). I'm an almost 35 year old full time mother of twin girls who are 3.5. It has been more or less all consuming of my life. I love many things like yoga, reading, running, deep friendships, hiking, camping...and yet I consistently feel like I don't have enough time/energy/space for these things. I'm hoping this continues to shift and change with time, but life with them still feels really intense most days (: I love having honest conversations about the experience of motherhood and the actual realities it involves and the feelings it brings up. I feel like we as a culture lie to each other about the experience of motherhood and it's actually quite damaging to those who then decide to become mothers and feel somewhat blindsided by the realities of it.