Is it normal to feel like you're barely functioning?

Ummm. Great question. Literally just got feedback from my boss today that two patients at my job complained that I "seem burnt out." 😭😭😭 They are correct - so in the hardly functioning camp! I choose my battles. Messy house, like piles and toys everywhere dirty kitchen messy. But I go to the gym twice a week. Doing it all is literally impossible. Delete Instagram like I did! It's helped with not comparing

I am somewhat obsessive about meal planning, we have a white board and each week I make a menu for the week and then make my grocery list based on the menu and what staples we need. I try to throw in a load of laundry each day, either mine, husbands, baby's or towels. I don't do a ton of deep cleaning TBH but do keep up with cleaning my kitchen each day and tidying any toy mess. Just try and start some small daily routines and things will fall into place more. Also I have no shame in putting on an episode of ms rachel if I need to cook or get something done

My son is 25 months & I’m wondering when it’s going to get easier. I feel like I’m dying every day. I’m exhausted & miserable.

@Sarah I may unfollow all the parenting stuff see if that helps

@Lily I do this I made meal prep list about 6 different ones with grocery list, stressing is my child is picky af and doesn't eat at all. So I feel like effort is wasted. And she doesn't eat fast food either. Just oatmeal or smoothies.

I wonder that so often. Like why the heck am I struggling so much and why us my toddler picking every struggle?

Eating is tough! The question I ask myself with my picky eater is, will he get scurvy today? If the answer is no, then we are ok. Also I tell myself I'm making the food for me, not him. If he eats it great. If not, chicken nuggets and blueberries once again. But it's so frustrating making healthy meals and it's an immediate rejection. If that helps

@Sarah I try not to worry but it's hardddd

Yes my daughter is picky too! Two things she will always eat are pbj and yogurt so I have those on the back burner if she completely refuses her dinner. She usually won't eat most "kid" food like fries, Mac and cheese or chicken nuggets so that makes things hard. One thing that is helped me is I offer each meal with some of her safe foods (usually berries or bread) and she is less likely to reject the whole plate and more likely to try some of the other stuff once she eats the foods she likes. Picky eating is so hard!

@Lily yeah I've done every trick out there, completely stopped pressuring her. Wrote down a list of things that would be considered pressure and it sits on the table as reminder. We do safe food with every meal. Mine eats safe food and decides that's it. And her safe food is fruit.

We all have those moments! 🥰Pick your battles! Prioritize! And be the best mom you can be! Make a small to do list in the morning and focus on that. If you finish the list great! If you do even more feel good about it but, if not that’s ok too! Celebrate the little wins! That house will be there. Do what you can to keep it going and make your baby happy and take a moment every day for yourself! You’ll get through it and it does get easier! Don’t put so much pressure on yourself to do it all. Do what you can and keep pushing through those hard moments! Cherish the little moments and focus on your wins! And keep it simple sometimes for meals. Kids are simple we make it complicated lol.

I felt the same way two months ago, and it may sound a little cliché but I decided to start working with my head, the way your mind is the same way everything else is. So I took a blank notebook and got everything out that was in there, then I reread it and listed the situations that I had to solve, cleaning the house, cooking (which the truth is I have never liked cooking and now that it is mandatory I hate it even more) etc. But damn the truth is I put myself first and I put what I needed to do to feel better and calmer while I did everything else, exercising has helped me A LOT and taking care of myself, taking a good bath and resting when the baby is in daycare ufff it helps you have clarity and gives you the time to take care of other things. For everything else, just make a weekly calendar where in 1 hour you can do something each day. We just need to get organized without stressing out, and if you feel like it's stressful to do so, use chatgpt, haha, it's become my best tool lol

@Anate I can do this, but I'm not sure how helpful it will be since I'm a sahm. Journaling might be nice though. Waiting till she's 3 to put her in preschool as they don't need "socializing" till that age. Also preschool isn't free for us, so I need the time to find one that offers things I like but isn't going to make us broke

I was feeling the same way! Lately I picked a task/room to clean a day so I didn’t feel like everything was always a mess or that I was cleaning all day. My daughter helps w cleaning now that I just focus on a room a day which is sweet but definitely still have burnt out days often!

@Katrina I was doing this, then got behind af. Kitchen and living room all I got energy for lately