Motherhood: The New Frontier!

I wonder what astronauts think when they enter space for the very first time. They have all the textbook knowledge but textbooks and reality can be two very different things.

I feel that way about motherhood. I vacillate between excitement and how I will feel with only a few hours of sleep and having to get up and change a diaper or make a bottle or go to work! How do they do it all?

One friend recently told me "I'm going to tell you exactly how it is. Get used to not having enough sleep and give up the thought that you can do it all. Cleaning the house may have to go on the back burner on days when you really need to just get on the floor with your little one and watch them grow up." I think this is the best advice I've gotten so far. I have always thought of mothers as superwomen but even Superwoman needs the calm breeze for her wings to take flight. I have now come to the conclusion that great mothers have to credit the great women they rely on to help them get there, the real super women.