It is so easy to get down on ourselves as parents and feel overwhelmed. It's easy to see the mundane day to day things we do and feel like we accomplish nothing. It's not true though! You've got to see what you're actually doing. Do you realize and everyday as you go around picking up, or having conversations that help an older child or change a diaper or fold the laundry - that's all service. It's all helping your kids feel closer to Christ because they can see Him in YOU!

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Hello. Welcome to today's episode. I am so excited to continue talking about parenting and what that can look like for us in various stages of our lives today. I feel like I need to share a little bit of a story with you. And on my website, I have a few blog posts just to a handful. And today I would like to actually read you one.

So if you want, you can go find this one. It's called, Dear Overwhelmed Mother and has some important points in it. But especially the point in that you're doing better than you think you are. So I hope you listen in today and can gain something from this perspective of it's okay. To be overwhelmed. And it's okay to feel like.

Life is just pounding on you sometimes because you're not alone in that. We all feel that sometimes. So I have a little disclaimer at the top that I'll start with and then read you this letter to my friend. I want to make sure that, you know, before reading this, that whether you have one child or 12 children, we all have moments where we become an overwhelmed.

Don't feel like, because I talk about having six kids close together, it means that you can't relate to or need to feel bad for relating. One thing I've learned is that whatever stage you are in that is the hardest place you've been as a mother. It was hard when I had one, it was a different, hard when I had four, we have all have heart and we can relate without putting ourselves down for having different, hard things.

Dear friends. AKA overwhelmed mother. You know what? That moment is like the one where the day seems to be crashing down around you. Dinner isn't even started. The breakfast dishes are still everywhere. The floor is sticky. The kids are running around in pajamas. And you feel like you don't have control of anything.

Someone is screaming for you or at you, or possibly both. Sometimes motherhood just becomes overwhelming. I've had that moment. What feels like a million times. Motherhood has been something that has not come as naturally as I anticipated when I was an older teenager and a young adult, the patients I went once felt like I had seems to have disappeared.

Having six kids in the span of seven years has been a great way to see how patient I actually am or rather the lack of patients I actually have for so many years, I had a baby, a toddler and a pre. The days where, oh, so long everyone told me I'd miss it someday. I'm still waiting to miss it. I had, and still have these moments where it all just comes, become so overwhelming to me.

The kids are so loud. Sometimes the house just won't stay picked up and the laundry is five to six loads deep in various stages. And everyone is asking me questions. It is in these moments where I just need to step away from the.