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Thriving Motherhood Does Not Look Like Pinterest

I just want to remind every mom out there who is feeling weighed down by all the imperfect mom guilt.

Life is messy.

Shaving cream science, a year later they still remember the details of the states of matter that go into the creation of shaving cream.

Pinterest is a photo-op. It shows us the best possible outcomes, tied up in a bow. Completely Staged. Even my messy photo for this graphic isn’t really messy enough. Come on, walls that white with no marks? Nothing stacked on the chairs or strewn about the floor? The cookbook carefully square to the edge of the counter? The toddler not holding the bowl of batter and tipping it to see what happens?

That is ok. I am not knocking Pinterest. But seriously, I wish messy half-lit pics could be popular. So you could have an example of what it really looks like.

Who says you shouldn’t stand on your head while reading great literature?

If your life looks like Pinterest, I am seriously worried for you.

But if it looks like mine, messy, colorful, and so busy you sometimes forget to breathe, I am here to remind you, THIS…