Do you ever set goals for yourself and work towards those goals until one day you’re just like, “Eff it, I don’t want to be healthy or productive or talented, I just want to sit like a lump on the couch while no one speaks to me for 3 days”?

…no? Just me? Cool.

My number one complaint about working out and eating healthy has always been that it’s a forever thing. It’s not like you get to your goal and then get to eat brownies and watch Netflix every day while maintaining the shape you worked so hard for. If you want to stay fit, you have to keep working out. Forever.

Ugh, right?

Parenting is similar.

LG is the love of my life, but the idea that I’m going to be her mom every single day for the rest of my life can be…a lot. And sometimes, after I’ve finished reading The Crayons’ Book of Numbers for the 80th time in a row, I’m like, “Okay, well, this has been fun. See you again in a couple of days.”

And then she laughs at me and tries to sit on my lap while I’m going to the bathroom because nothing is sacred anymore. My time is her time. My space is her space. Togetherness is our life now.

Husband said to me the other day, “Don’t you just love her so much?” And I was all, “Oh my gosh, so much. But then at the same time, I would also like to just not see her for a little while, you know?”

Because those are things a good mom says.

And then I see people who are ALL IN for their kid. You know the ones. They happily watch their baby play for hours. They do art projects with their toddler on the regular. They miss their kid while he naps. I see those people, and I’m like, “Excuse me, are you drunk? Or just lying? Because surely you’re not actually that psyched about doing kid things all day. Like, don’t you miss adult things? Thinking a complete sentence without being interrupted, for example? Eating snacks without having to share? Looking at your phone without little hands trying to steal it to call Mimi?”

No? Again…just me?

Perfect.

So yeah, I’d say I’m really thriving as a stay-a-home mom right now. Just really, really feeling successful. Living it up.

Based on the way LG is wiggling on the monitor, I have about 5 minutes left of nap time, so I’m going to go stuff my face with Mini M&Ms even though I’m “not eating sweets this month” because I need to mentally prepare for the second half of the day, and you can only expect so much from me.

Yep. We’re doing great.