Raise your hands in the air if your a mom and you feel overwhelmed and tired sometimes! 🙌

   I live in a 900 sqft house with my husband, a dog and 3 boys, the oldest is 8, our middle one is 3 and the baby is 1.
They can create a mess faster than you can blink your eyes while reading this post. Well maybe not that fast but it sure feels like it.

  Some days I find it so hard to keep up with them and I find it so hard to be in my thoughts. Its almost constant chaos in the little house we live in, there is always arguing and sometimes literal fighting between all three of them. Toys are thrown around like little grenades trying to blow up my sanity and Lego left on the floor EVERYWHERE like little mines that beg me to be thrown away into the trash can but I must say no because we will end up buying more to replace them.

  I have days where I feel like I cannot handle another moment or I will just burst into flames or tears or both. You know what though, I get through those moments. How? Well in all honestly I cant do it alone. I get through those moments leaning on God. He knows me more than I know myself. He knows those little precious gifts that drive me crazy sometimes, more than I will ever know them.

  Motherhood is HARD but don't get me wrong here, it is so worth it. To see those little faces light up with joy from the smallest of things is just heart melting. I prayed for these boys. I begged God to keep them safe and cried when the doctors told me my 8 year old wouldn't make it past the 1st trimester and again the 2nd trimester but God had other plans for my boy though, for all of my boys.

  Where am I getting at?

  Mom, sweet precious child of God. Your children are a gift to you because God knew and knows you are suitable to raise them. You have every tool at your fingertips and the most amazing example. God. No matter how good or bad the day has been for you just know God chose you. He chose you to love on those babies, chaos and all. He chose you to raise those little ones up.

  Are you feeling guilt for not being the mom you think you should be? Don't. Just don't. It isn't worth the time nor energy. Trust me. I waste a bit of time in that and I regret some days the way I handled my frustration, fatigue and being overwhelmed. Something God keeps reminding me is there is no condemnation in Christ Jesus (Romans 8:1). Ask for forgiveness to the children and God if you have done something you think is wrong and then move on. Choose to learn from that moment, I promise you children are much quicker to forgive than us adults, and God even quicker like so quick He already forgave you before you sinned. God loves unconditionally and so do those babies.

Hug them mom and know that He is God. You can do this,we got this girl. We got this.

with love,
   Tina Marie