Like PostSecret?
Then you will love True Mom Confessions ("Motherhood is hard. Admit it."), brought to you by Babble's own Straight From the Bottle blogger Rebecca Woolf. It's an anonymous list of raw, real
disclosures by moms like you. And me. At least, sometimes. Care for a
sample? Of course you do:
*I
want to just for one day give myself the credit I think I might
deserve. I am tired of feeling like I suck at this. I am tired of
worrying every minute of every day that I am not a good mom. I want to
believe, deep in my soul, that I am and that my kids are going to be
just fine.
*Sometimes I let the kids make big messes in the house, just so that they'll leave me alone for five minutes.
*Sometimes I wish I never had children. I love my kids but somtimes I am
so envious of childless people who can just do whatever they please
without a second thought. Whenever I hear someone is pregnant with
their first baby, I can't help but think in my mind "Ha! Have fun...you
have no idea what's in store for you"
*I forgot to pick my kids up at school!
*I'm sick of the fact that every conversation I have with my friend is really a competition to see who has the smarter kid.
*So far, no one, not even my therapist, has been able to tell me quite
how I'm supposed to reconcile the whole having a baby, and having a
full-time, saving the world kind-of career, or any kind of career for
that matter. I'm scared.
*Sometimes I fantasize about getting in my car, driving away and never coming back.
*Every so often... I masturbate while my kids nap. When they
interrupt me and ask what mommy is doing... I tell them that mommy's
taking a nap. And to go watch TV. Until I'm finished.
Any of these strike a nerve with you? I could chime in with several
of them myself. Check out the site, there's much, much more.
