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My Autoimmune Disease Makes Me Feel Like a TOTAL Loser

I suffer from mom-comparison. It’s a thing. And when I googled it, just now, there’s 53.4 million results… I can only assume you do too. Why am I soooo tired? Others moms are up in the night and they can still function. Why is my house such a mess all the time? Other moms take time to clean their house during nap time. I can’t survive without a nap during that time, or at least a pretend nap where I lay on the couch and try to shut my brain off. My husband does the night time feedings for our newborn because I’m so exhausted, even with 8 hours of sleep. How do all of the moms of the girls in my daughter’s preschool class have time to do elaborate hairstyles each morning… by 9 AM?! The answer is simple: they don’t have an autoimmune disease. I know because I was that mom… the one who did my daughter’s hair each and every morning. The one who had exercised, read scriptures, eaten a healthy breakfast, and showered before my baby woke at 7 AM. The one who had cleaned the house and alr...