Last night as you let me hold you as you slept, for the first time in a longtime… so many thoughts crept into my mind as tears began to flow down my face.

✖️Was I doing enough?
✖️Am I meeting all your needs?
✖️Am I too hard on you sometimes?

These are just some of the questions I ask myself… I now realize that these are probably the same questions that my mother spent many nights crying and wondering herself… and the same questions that many parents are asking themselves on a daily basis.

Parenting doesn’t come with a manual. It isn’t easy and as you’re getting to know your child you’re figuring out how to be a parent- and that’s okay. In a perfect world, our lives would allow us to parent uninterrupted, but the reality is that we have to fit in parenting into the crevices life allows it is something that is just now a part of life.

I say all of that to say this:
•We are doing ENOUGH as long as we are actively involved in their lives and trying, even if we don’t have the answers and are figuring them out as we go. 
•It is okay to miss bedtime sometimes because you have to work late, one day when they’re old enough they’ll realize you were doing what you had to do.
•It is okay to lose your cool, your child will still love you anyway.
•It is okay to not have the means to buy your child the most expensive toy on the shelf this Christmas, your time and love is more meaningful in the long run.

As parents, we need to stop questioning and critiquing our daily decisions and try to live more in the now… enjoying every phase of parenting, every phase of our children’s life because they will never be this small again. 💜

“If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, living in the future. 
If you are at peace you are living in the moment.”
– Lao Tzu