Short term? Not really. Your clean sink only lasts until your child's next meal (so, like 5 min? 🤣) Your child does grow up eventually, though. Faster than you might like, even. When you go to work outside the home, you don't start out as the ceo on day one. You learn the job, set up systems, solve problems, and take on new responsibilities. You learn and adapt. In a sense, it's good to struggle because it means that you care. Lean into a growth mindset and get excited for where you and your family can go from here. 🧭
Use the free hours!!
Sounds exactly like me! My husband is my only support. He continues to remind me that before I know it he will be in preschool and I’ll miss him and try to soak up all the time I have now. He will have his whole life to be in school 8 hours a day and you can get your breaks! Try to pass the time planning fun activities together or signing him up for classes where you can just sit and watch on days you need a break. Sometimes I need to buy a fun toy and he’ll usually get a few hours of interaction with that and then the cycle repeats lol stay strong hang in there
We have a 1.5 yr old and I'm 5 mo pregnant and life is good and relatively easy. Our house is a fixer upper so we always have projects and my days are pretty busy keeping up with the basics like dishes/laundry/ shopping etc. but my career (steep roofing and school for medical) before this was significantly harder 🤷 I know I'll have my work cut out for me after baby #2 is born. I have a lot of experience as a daycare teacher for 2 yr olds too and that's the "golden age" in my opinion. Then they get sassy at age 3
You got this!!!!