The Working Mom

I haven't been on here in a while, and normally I would apologize, but today I'm going to cut myself some slack. I'm a mother of three babies, a wife, and a teacher to very intense, needy middle schoolers. I want to preface this post that this isn't a happy go lucky post, but you will get your normal update post Friday after our 4 month check up (I know...CrAZY!) 

Being back at work has been a bittersweet whirlwind. The cacophony of work and my new life as a mother hasn't always been the most beautiful mixture.  Separately these lives existed, and now they are trying to mix. It's a harsh reality that I can't be their for my kids at home completely, or with my students at school completely. 

I got 10 new students. I got three new babies that I have to give up daily. It takes all that I am to walk through the doors of school with a smile on my face daily and welcome my students. I seriously miss my babies more than anything...

BUT THEN...

This crazy space time continuum happens and I'm so needed. Busy, counseling, teaching, coaching, translating all day that the time flies by and the day has nothing left but for me to go home.

  I go home and I think about my students. 

I go to school and I think about my babies. 

They both intermix in my prayers and cries to God. 

The working mom. The teaching mom. 

Pray for me if you do that kind of thing... My heart is hurting in both places today.