Most days I feel like I am running around like a chicken with its head cut off. Just trying to survive. A lot of people say the newborn stage is the hardest, but as we quickly approach the "terrible twos" I find this statement to be false. I would take losing some sleep any day over constantly repeating myself, saying crazy phrases like "don't bite the furniture," and dealing with toddler tantrums! So when you mix it all together, the loss of sleep and chasing a crazy 20 month old, you can see how I am slowly losing my mind. And I only have two babies!! I have so much respect for my friends who have 3 or 4 or 5 kiddos to care for. I applaud you ladies for taking on this challenge and making it look easy.
Lately I have compared this struggle of learning to handle multiple children to a war. I feel like I am constantly in the trenches duking it out. I struggle just to get it all done. Not once have I been able to shower and cook dinner in the same day. There just isn't enough time to do it all, so something has to give (lately it has been cooking dinner. I have a very patient husband).
Though in the trenches God has used this time teach me so much about himself. In the past couple of months, He has constantly brought this verse to mind,
" Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God."
2 Corinthians 3:5
Praise the Lord I find my strength in Him! I can't do this on my own, and I can rest knowing that not by my strength but His prefect power I will survive this battle. I can make it through the sleepless nights and the crazy fits my son likes to throw. Hallelujah I have risen Savior to run to while I am in the trenches.
As I hurry to finish writing (mainly because Payton is screaming and Knox desperately needs a diaper change... oh motherhood!), I leave you with the thought that if you struggle too, you are not alone my friend.
Also here is some of my witty humor (Can you smell the sarcasm?)
You may be in the trenches if...
1. You may be in the trenches if you view going to the bathroom by yourself a vacation.
2. You may be in the trenches if you've ever wished for sickness just so you'd finally get a chance to stay in bed all day long. (just me ?)
3. You may be in the trenches if you've accidentally put the dog food in your child's snack bowl, and giving the dog his snack.
4. You may be in the trenches if you say, "Don't touch" every 5 minutes.
5. And last, you may be in the trenches if you legitimately forgot when the last time you actually showered was.(Ps. When I finally remembered it had been four days!! You can imagine the excitement my husband had when I finally took one.)
