I’ve been sharing all the hilarious/crazy/unexpected things that have happened in the last few months with a group of my mommy friends and we’ve started tagging these instances with #momlife because they are beginning to be normal in our lives.

To be frank, two year olds are weird. There’s no getting around this. I feel like mine is especially weird, but maybe that is just because nobody around me is telling me how weird their two year old is, so my perception is skewed. Classic example of this? As I wrote about before, we are trying to get LeLe into potty training but she just doesn’t seem all that ready. However, she does like to pee in the shower at every possible opportunity. Cue three nights ago when she stripped naked in the bathroom and peed all over the floor because it was shower time. I walked in expecting to see her naked and ready to get into said shower, but instead she was literally spraying pee all over the floor. I swear to you, she was alone in the bathroom for less than a minute. #momlife.

You know that magical moment when you are holding your beautiful son over your head and marveling at how adorable he is? And then 2 seconds later, you are covered in puke and it narrowly missed your mouth? #momlife. How about the time you roll over in the middle of the night and all of a sudden a tiny face is in yours, smiling huge and wanting to spend an hour clapping his hands and giving you slobbery open mouth kisses. At 2 am. #momlife.

What about the fact that your car is covered in crumbs and sticky fingerprints? #momlife. Or that you just cleaned the kitchen floor and two minutes later your toddler drops an entire cup of milk and it manages to seep under the fridge. #momlife. How about the giant smile your toddler gets when you turn on the Frozen soundtrack in the car, even though you’ve listened to it three million times? #momlife.

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My life now is filled with these moments where I can’t even begin to understand how they are happening. I just didn’t expect my life to have so many hilarious things happening all.the.time. I guess I was under the impression that having kids would be boring. The reality is not so. This post is meant to be funny in nature, but in all honesty, being a mom and living the #momlife also means that I am experiencing so many things that I would have missed otherwise. Like having my little boy fall asleep on my chest for two hours and being so content that he makes little happy sighs every few minutes. Or having my two year old tell me she loves me for the very first time. That’s the best kind of #momlife. These moments fill my days and nights and change me. They make me happy and sad at the same time and I can’t believe that I get to experience them. I feel like I won the lottery with my two babies. Like I did something extra right and got rewarded with these two perfect little souls. Ahhh, #momlife.

The #momlife is tough, exhausting, even depressing at times. But there are so many things that happen that are magical, unexpected, beautiful. And that my friend, is the #momlife.  

What are your #momlife moments?