Wow, it was not my intention to disappear from the blog for so long! I tell you, this parenting gig isn?t easy. It just swallows me up at times.
March and April were a couple of the hardest months we’ve had since becoming parents of two. We were struggling to stay afloat and not sleeping much. I started to feel depressed/anxious on and off (which worried me a bit, given my past struggles), and was at a loss for how to write about what I was going through. For a while, I lost the motivation to do many of the things I normally enjoy. The past few years have been amazing and intense and emotional and exhilarating and exhausting. The phrase ?burning a candle at both ends? comes to mind. My kids are my world and being a mother is my favourite role in life, but it?s so damn hard sometimes. That?s just the honest truth. Some days you just survive. But then there are those daily moments that take my breath away…make my heart burst with love and my eyes well with tears, and it?s like…oh yeah. THIS. This is it. This is what makes it all worth it a million times over. Grateful doesn’t even begin to describe how I feel. Thankfully, we seem to be in a better phase right now: we?re all getting more sleep, and the kids have been much happier. I?m soaking it up! My motivation has also returned and inspiration seems to be everywhere lately. Despite the incessant rain of late, things are feeling fresh and new again. My birthday is coming up in a week, so the timin...