After seeing everyone else’s posts I went looking through my feed for perfect photos of me showing how fabulous and accomplished I was. Spoiler alert: not only do those photos not exist for me in 2016 because I was in the trenches with my kids but there are hardly any pictures of me at all. No one was focused on taking pictures of me because I was the one focused on taking care of and taking pictures of my kids. I hadn’t started my business yet and had five toddlers. Enough said. Life was full of great blessings, but it was also pretty damn hard. I do look back and realize how stinking cute my kids were, however. The Takeaway: people post the shiny bits of their lives. Don’t think for a second that this is a full reflection of reality. And please please don’t compare yourself to them. We all go through different phases and eras. That era wasn’t all bad. I loved being a mom, but it was also really hard. I had lost myself and was trying to find some semblance of who I was again. But again, the kids were cute. ☺️