My son and I, like everyone, have our good weeks and our bad weeks. I am home with him all day until my husband gets home from work near dinner time. And for the most part, I love my role as, what I like to call, the “modern stay-at-home mom”. But there are some weeks when my son stretches his limits, or that I wake up on the wrong side of the bed, or our VERY similar attitudes clash. This past week was one of those weeks. Nothing bad really happened (unless you count the great Build-a-Bear debacle of 2018 which I am sure a lot of you got caught up in), it was more a week where little things added up. A tantrum here, a backsass there, just the normal two year old stuff! By Friday, I woke up and was hit by the sinuses truck. My head was swimming, my throat was hurting, basically I was a big mess of bleh. My son had decided to wake up particularly early that morning, really adding to my exhaustion and crud. But, moms don’t get sick days right? So, I got up and made him his breakfast. I didn’t put my normal care into it, but he got fed and was happy watching cartoons with me on the couch. After the third time watching the same 20 minute cartoon, I had started to doze off. I was trying so hard to push through the fog but I just couldn’t. My son climbed up on me to wrestle, one of his favorite pastimes, when I told him that I couldn’t because mommy was sick. Without missing a beat he slid off the couch, grabbed a blanket to cover me up, gave me a kiss and repeated our bedtime saying that we say every night. He let me nap for an hour! He actually went into his playroom and played alone for an HOUR while I got the most refreshing hour nap I have ever had. I was shocked. He woke me up to get him some more juice and I was stunned when I looked at the clock. I immediately called my husband, who often gets the frazzled calls when we are having a hard time, and gushed about how amazing our son was. It was like whatever had happened the rest of the week was out the window and he was the golden child all over again! I think that is how we survive motherhood. It’s like selective amnesia! When they do something so loving and simple who cares if they threw a 10 minute tantrum over a cookie!
Korina is the Author of Motherly Mayhem, which she writes during naptime! She is married to her college sweetheart and together they have a two year old crazy kid, Killian. When she is not trying to squeeze in some writing time, she has a YouTube channel (ThatOneCoupleTV) which documents their lives. She also has a Mommy-Instagram called "KillinitwithKillian" where she posts incredibly adorable pictures when she can get her son to stand still! For the most part, her life is filled with mom-buns, Lightsaber fights, Sofia the First, Cleaning up messes, a lot of Mayhem and TONS of Love!
