Remember the good ol'days when you could call off work, stay home in bed for the entire morning at least before anyone needed you? The exhaustion levels that mom's reach at different times during their span of actively parenting are beyond any scientific measure I am convinced...
...first it's pregnancy exhaustion. Your body feels like you were taken over by aliens and left with only the energy to put one foot in front of the other... then comes of the first three months of motherhood. Not only is your body trying to heal itself from the most draining thing it has every been through, but it is also trying to function on less sleep than a college student gets when they pull an all-nighter. Your body is also trying to make enough food for this new human who eats every last ounce of life that you have left in you. Every feeding you wake up with the same drained, zombie exhaustion and have to do it all over again. It was during these months of fatigue and complete zombie-like existance that I begged God to give me a day off. One day of sweet sleep. I remember begging my child to go back to sleep with tears dripping down my face...
...next comes the toddler stage when teething and ear infections, itchy rashes and tummy aches cause nights of little sleep and exhausted days. And during the day all they do is go, go, go and expect you to go just as fast, and just as hard as they do. I swear since my son has become a toddler, even my dog sleeps more and is less active! I don't know what will come with the next stage, probably stressed out nights and boogy monsters to keep our levels of exhaustion at an all-time high...
I feel terrible that the days when I don't get much sleep and I have to help two girls with homework and make sure two toddler boys get along all day, sometimes mommy has an off day. I let the boys watch way too much television and I let the girls off the hook when their homework isn't perfect... I lose my temper way before it's appropriate and I wring my husband neck when he gets home (figuratively, most of the time;). These days are days when I think it would be best for everyone if I could call in sick, I would call it, "exhaustion days". And I think mom's should get as many as they need. Sometimes I dream that Heaven is a place where I can call off and take a nap for a whole day! Isn't that paradise for mom's?
I feel for you mom's, I don't think the exhaustion ever ends, maybe when our kids our out of the house; oh that's right then they will have kids that they will want us to take care of on our days off:) The exhaustion cycle just runs and runs. One day, maybe in Heaven, we will get a mommy day off. But while we are on this world in a fatigued state, don't stress yourself out when you have a Mommy Off-Day, our children will forgive us and our husbands will understand... one day at least:)
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