Mama, Can You Read to Me?

One of the hardest things about parenting is trying to be present for your kids and for yourself, too.

Like…how? How? Seriously, how?

If I can set everything aside- my goals, to-do list, personal needs and wants, other people’s need and want of me, my junkie-pull to my phone…and just focus on my kids, I enjoy them. Only then am I the patient, fun, attentive, loving, creative, weird, calm and nurturing mom I want them to have…but that’s not the kind of woman I can be all the time. It’s unsustainable. I DO have goals, needs, other responsibilities…