motherhood is hard.

there are a lot of things i want to do, but i don’t have the mental energy to do them.

i have a list of mini-books (non-fiction, business, career) that i want to write, for example.

in the past, i had written a 4000 word book chapter over the course of 1 weekend.

now, i ruminate over bits and pieces of the same ideas for months, and i still can’t get my mind to coalesce enough to form a complete sentence for any of these book ideas.

yea, my baby’s smiling face and delighted gurgles are wonderful.

but sometimes motherhood really, really SUCKS.

as i’ve mentioned in the past, if you’re a new parent and think you can juggle caring for a newborn full-time while figuring out what you want to do with your life, on top of maintaining a business, AND exploring new business ideas, you’d probably want to rethink that assumption. i’m a near-basket case at this point because i didn’t know this was what i was getting myself into. now that i’m in it. Read the rest of this entry →