My response to a recent email I recieved from a Mamma friend of mine relaying that caring for her six month old baby was feeling really hard.

We’ve known each other for a while, so I enjoyed mixing in humor:

Well, I’m not sure it gets better everyday. More like, “it gets better every year.” With smaller easy/hard cycles that switcheroo every couple of days or weeks…or minutes:(

For me: I mostly wanted the throw my baby in the garbage and put the lid on for about the first two years. (though I wouldn’t trade those sweet just-nothing-quite-like-it nursing years for anything in the world)  

Then he started sleeping.

After that, I wanted to pull out my own hair and cry for the next few years of toddler poop on the walls and tantrums – Continue reading →