Being a mom takes grace

Sunday Basketball had us up and on the go and up at 6 am this morning.

we had 7 games and let me tell ya these kiddos were giving it their all in each one.

There was a time in my life where I would be sleeping all the way to the game and barely able to stay awake watching them play. Those days I like to call my survival mode days, just going through the motions and being a body there for my kids to feel support form their mom. I can't tell you how emotional I am just writing this out for the first time ever. Being a mom is tough enough but being a fun energetic mom who is mindfully giving her kids the attention they need and deserve was nearly impossible for me, especially when they were little. I had to learn the hard way that the key to balancing out my life and taking my energy back was a small mindset shift of practicing self care. Sounds easy right? I wish, every time I would attempt at making the shift I came down with a serious case of mom guilt. There wasn't anyone around to tell me it was ok to practice self care and chunk out some time to reset. Y'all I'd feel guilty just buying myself a new pair of Vickie's house underwear. I'm mean come-on really! The mom guilt was awful. Look if there is anything you get out of my ramblings here please know that you are worthy mama! you are worthy of buying the underwear, worthy of taking some time to invest in yourself, whatever that looks like for you. I give you permission to allow yourself some grace on days you wake up and still feel exhausted to even go through the motions. Know that the work you are doing to stay consistent in taking care of yourself is going to overflow into your babies.

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This kid!