30 Things About Being A Mom That I Wish I Had Known

I came across this great post written by, Jennifer Lizza, on Whattheflicka.com. She did an amazing job listing all the emotions we go through in motherhood without sugar-coating it. Moms will have good days, bad days and even ugly days-but in the end it's mostly beautiful 🙂 Here's a quick preview of her list:

1.) Motherhood is beautiful and terrifying all at once.

2.) You won’t always be happy as a mother.

3.) You will always love your child/children but there will be times you don’t like them and that is completely normal.

4.) There will be times you will want to cry in the corner.

5.) There will be times you do cry in the corner.

6.) You will learn you are so much stronger than you thought.

7.) The first time you hear your child laugh you will find a part of your heart that you didn’t realize existed and it will make you smile a smile you didn’t know was possible.

8.) You will doubt yourself.

9.) You will at some point sound like your mother and it will make you both cringe and giggle.

10.) You will share information with your friends that you never would have thought was appropriate before kids, things like “OMG I haven’t pooped in at least four days!”, and “Why are my nipples so sore, this kid doesn’t even have teeth yet?”, and “I’m seriously telling my husband the Dr. said 4 more weeks.” They will laugh with you, cry with you, and understand you in ways that only a mother can.

11.) You will do anything for sleep. For example a person who may have said she would never rock her child in a glider all night just to get some shut eye will do just that. Hell I would have swung on a swing at 3am by myself in a park to get my first born to sleep for longer than 1 hour at a time. Seriously!

12.) You will learn as you go and that is just fine. Your kids will somehow think you know what you’re doing, until they’re teenagers of course and then you are suddenly the biggest idiot on the planet.

13.) You will feel judged by others.

Click the link below to see the rest of her amazing list:

30 Things About Being A Mom That I Wish I Had Known