For all the moms who have lost their light, found it and got it back, whatever the case may be, here's an uplifting read!

I lost my light for a few days there.

Maybe longer.

By the time I got the kids down every night, I had NO willpower to do anything beyond shrivel up in my warm bed.

I was giving my kids the best I had and my husband whatever was left, but I knew I had lost it. I had lost my light.

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It came back the other day.

I was in the middle of vacuuming, three kids darting in and out of my path, when Trenton bonked his knee. I saw him shrinking to the ground and I shut off the vacuum.

He tucked his knoby limbs into my lap. (I try never to miss a chance to hold him, now that I know my chances are numbered.) Quinn edged her way in between us, concerned, and Chase (ever unaffected) chattered away at my feet.

And I felt it come back, my little light—my spark—right there among the vacuum strokes as the sun faded outside the window.

Sometimes motherhood is like that. You lose your spark. Maybe you’re distracted; maybe you’re disappointed in yourself. Maybe you’re working to quell some resentment; maybe you think everyone else is doing better than you. Maybe you’re just tired of the mess.

Or maybe there’s no big reason at all.

Whatever it is, it happens. We lose our light, but we keep giving to the people we love, and somehow, it makes its way back.

Re: For all the moms who have lost their light, found it and got it back, whatever the case may be, here's an uplifting read!

Re: For all the moms who have lost their light, found it and got it back, whatever the case may be, here's an uplifting read!

Re: For all the moms who have lost their light, found it and got it back, whatever the case may be, here's an uplifting read!

Thanks for this.....sometimes I feel like it's just me that feels this way. I'm waiting for my light to come back!

Re: For all the moms who have lost their light, found it and got it back, whatever the case may be, here's an uplifting read!

Re: For all the moms who have lost their light, found it and got it back, whatever the case may be, here's an uplifting read!

You have no idea how much I needed this right now!

Re: For all the moms who have lost their light, found it and got it back, whatever the case may be, here's an uplifting read!

Motherhood is the most rewarding but hardest job I think anyone could ever have. VERY easy to lose yourself in the day to day hamster wheel.