So I parent with urgency .
At 25, exhaustion was existential. It was fear. It was "Will I be enough? Will I break this? Do I even know who I am?" mature mom
When you become a mother in your twenties, you are still becoming yourself. The lines blur. You lose pieces of your identity to the baby, and it takes years to find them again. So I parent with urgency
Because I know, with a bone-deep certainty, that this is the easy hard. with a bone-deep certainty
So yes, I am tired. I am slower. I don’t understand TikTok. My back hurts.
Here is the truth no one whispers:
And you know what? I wouldn’t trade it for the world.