Seasons of Mommyhood

Just when you think you've got one part of your life as a mom down pat - BOOM! - you find you're smack dab in the middle of another part. Or season. Or chapter. Or whatever you want to call it.

At one point in my mommy life I had two kids under two and a half. Two kids in diapers. Two kids with binkies. Two kids crying at the same time. And I was lucky to get two showers a week. Crazy life of a mom with babies. You get it. But this part, thank goodness this part is over I got used to and I managed.

Then BOOM! I am thrown into another chapter of my life - being a mom of a preschooler and a toddler. Yikes! Talk about sleepless nights and pee everywhere and the amounts of ingested crayons. I shutter thinking back to those days. And yet they seems like yesterday. Once again, I managed the chaos and became a professional mom juggling doctor's appointments, school (both me and the preschooler), home life, and finding some time for myself. I got this phase of my life down to a T.

Then BOOM!...again. Here I am with a child in kindergarten. He's in real school. The real deal. And that toddler who ate crayons and potty trained himself? Well, now he's the preschooler...attending the school of mom. Here's how this chapter of my mommy life reads: I'm doing kindergarten homework, going to the library, cheering at soccer games, joining the PTO, volunteering, fretting over sight words and reading levels, and wondering if I'm hurting my preschooler by not having him in preschool.

I'm in the learning phases of this part of my mommy life. I'm sure I'll get it figured out soon. I'll feel like a pro again...one day. I hope.