You can be on your last leg....feelin' scrappy, dog-tired and grumpy, but if you look put together, you'll have them all fooled. Every day I pick up the girls at school mid-day....along with a fairly large group of other mothers. I've made a big effort to pull myself together when I go on this mid-day jaunt. Meaning a cute outfit, some makeup and at least a pass with the brush on my hair. Why? Because I feel so tired, and so out of it that I figure I have to do something to keep it together. The other day this mother, whom I don't know all that well, asked me about having three kids and said, "you look great, and make it look so easy." Ha, I almost lost it in a fit of laughter. I almost called her crazy. Me? Look good? Make it look easy? She was genuinely surprised when I told her the truth....Gia has colic and cries 90% of the time, I get zero sleep, my body is squishy and I feel like my breasts might fall off from her round the clock nursing....and it is anything but easy. But hey, I did have on a pretty cute outfit and makeup can help. Makes me wonder how many assumptions I make during the day based on how someone looks--assumptions that could be totally wrong. I think I probably saw some mom who made it "look" easy to have three kids and therefore I had three myself thinking I could handle it.....OOPS! :-)
I think by forcing myself to dress and get myself together I made myself feel a little better...a case of the "outside shaping the inside". Maybe I can trick myself into feeling rested and fabulous! Signed, ME {lv}
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