Being Real

I ran into an article on the Huffington Post the other day, that completely (or often) describes my thoughts about parenthood in the trenches. 

People that are constantly saying on their blogs -  "I love being a parent! My kids are so great!" Without ever saying "Dude, this is really hard."  occasionally annoy me. 

Maybe this is just because I want to know there are people out there that struggle being optimistic like me.  Anyway...

I've got nothing against being nice, being positive and I'm always trying to be MORE optimistic, more happy.  But I also feel a good deal of relief being REAL sometimes.

This article made me look at my January word of being Present and laugh a little bit.  And I realized I might have being viewing this word as an attempt to "Hey!  Enjoy every moment Maggie!  Remember how all the old ladies tell you to enjoy every moment??" But after reading this article, I realized that if I can enjoy the moment and be present just once or twice a day (In the article she talks about Kairos moments.  Those.) that I am doing just fine. 

This article called Don't Carpe Diem is seriously worth the read.  I hope you'll follow the link.

I do think I am going to write myself a letter (to be opened in 10 years.  Then I'll re-do it for 20 years) because I sometimes think of small snipets I want myself to remember.  I want myself to remember what it was REALLY like having small children at home.  I want people with small children to be able to visit my house and not worry about breakable junk on my bookshelf.  I'll save a small box of toys.  Things like that.

What would you want to remember after your kids get older?  So that we arn't those crazy people saying "aww.  Are you enjoying EVERY moment?"