We all experience our ups and downs during this pandemic.

We don't want to admit to them because we feel that we should be grateful because we are healthy and we are safe.

My kids are not happy and they have been asking when this will all be over. And my answer has, recently, always been "I don't know."

It's okay, as a mom, not to have all the answers every single day of our children's lives.

We need to be kind to our children and kind to ourselves while we get through this.

This Mother's Day is a difficult one for me because it's the first Mother's Day that my mother is not alive.

My relationship with my mother had a lot of ups and downs but I loved her and she loved me.

I wonder if my greatest failure will be not being there for my children later in their lives.

I'm fully committed to helping them become the best version of themselves that they can possibly be.

We're not perfect but we know that we're always doing what we think is best for them.

When we were asked to become legal guardians of Bug and Dora, it didn't dawn on me at the time that I'm not used to taking on a boy.

Boys are so much different. From, hygiene, to clothing, to playtime, everything is a challenge.

I'm always worried that he'll be hurting himself because of his strength and energy.

But when he smiles and he looks up at me with those beautiful brown eyes, I could just melt.

I'm so privileged to be the Mom of a 4-year-old boy.

Due to the lockdowns, there's not much to do here in our condo in Florida.

I expect the girls to help out with some chores.

I get tired of being accused of being a nap and of being unreasonable.

It dawned on me that my constantly screaming, yelling and nagging wasn't going to teach them anything.

If their chores were not done, I would simply call the cleaning lady to do it for them, and then they could pay for it.

I realized what a wonderful feeling it was to be emancipated from all the nagging and yelling.

Social media is a real challenge for my kids because they tend to abuse it.

I get that they want to spend time with their friends and the way to do it right now is through social media.

But it feels like it's overtaking their lives -- how do you balance this out?

We have to do what we need to do first, and then we do what we want to do second.

I think I will go with the physical removal of the electronics for a while and see how that works out.

I'm feeling The Big Overwhelm and because of this, I start feeling guilty about a lot of things.

I feel guilty that I don't have any answers to my kids'questions.

I feel guilty because I might not have been more appreciative of my mother's efforts.

I feel guilty that I'm comparing myself to somebody else.

I feel guilty that I dare complain about any of it because the bottom line is my family is healthy and safe.

But then, I realize it's okay to feel The Big Overwhelm because we're all just human.

I remember the heartbreak that I went through when the girls turned five.

Seeing Bug turn five brought back all of those memories.

When your kid asks for something for their birthday, you come up with it!

Things were different this year because of the pandemic. Bug didn't he get our planned birthday party and misses his friends.

I miss all their friends driving me crazy. I just want my children to go back to having a normal life.

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I have a high tolerance for pain but still, the procedure hurt like hell! The benefits I got from having the O-shot was worth every dime of the $1800 that I paid for it.

I highly recommend it, but be aware, it will be hell to get to that paradise!

It's amazing how my children's friendships can change from being the best of friends one moment, then being freenemies the next.

Our children need to experience things for themselves: decision making, failures, mistakes because this is how they learn the skills needed to maneuver situations in life.

The most important lesson I've learned from the relationships of my children is to stay out of it.

Growing pains are part of my children's journey as well as part of my own motherhood journey.

What kind of mother do I really want to be? A mother that can lose her temper? A mother that nags?

Kids can suck the nice out of you.

It makes me feel a bit better about my kids because I know the way they're behaving is normal.

Gentle discipline isn't always effective.

I'm not their friend. I'm their mother, first and foremost.

My job, as their mother, is to help them be the better version of themselves and to help create self-sufficient, happy adults that could contribute to society.