50: What Your Mother Never Told You About Motherhood
For our 50th episode I wanted to do something a little fun and a little special.\xa0I actually recorded this in the 30 minutes before my IVF egg retrieval.\xa0I\u2019m not sure it reinforced the idea that I truly want to go for #2, haha\u2026\n\xa0\nMy mom has always done a great job of painting motherhood in a beautiful picture:\xa0\n\xa0\n\u201cYour children will always be your proudest accomplishment.\u201d\n\u201cThere is nothing like a mother\u2019s love.\u201d\n\u201cI don\u2019t remember you ever waking up at night.\u201d\n\u201cYou are your sister were easy babies.\u201d\n\xa0\nMoms have a knack for making it look like we just wake up every day and knock everything out of the freakin\u2019 park.\xa0As our children age, that is how we remember it too.\xa0\n\xa0\n\u201cYou were the happiest baby in the world.\u201d\n\u201cThe days just flew by.\u201d\n\u201cNothing compares to being a mom.\u201d\n\xa0\nYou know what else nothing compares to?\xa0\n\xa0\nSipping wine with my husband on a beach without a small child in site.\n\xa0\nOr spending a day all alone with no one needing a damn thing from me.\xa0\n\xa0\nAs our children age, we idealize the past and it gets better and better.\xa0As NewbornLand becomes a distant memory, we find ourselves falling in love with the memories, rather than recalling the reality, which was survival, barely.\xa0\n\xa0\nThis episode is dedicated to the first 50 episodes of the Shameless Mom Academy and the nearly 50,000 downloads of Shameless Moms listening in to learn and laugh together every week.\xa0Thank you for the love and support.\xa0You make my motherhood journey so much better.\xa0\n\xa0\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices