So many thoughts. First, I am excited to prioritize self care again. That basically mans my house is less clean but that I am happy. Hopefully eventually the house will get cleaner as my mental health gets better. One thing that’s been exciting is that we’ve been doing special time with both kids every day. So we each take ten minutes with each kid and then trade. And the kids get to decide what we do. It was hard at first because of the big feelings when special time is over. Although I did help #1 make a chart of options of things to do after special time and that did help. But anyways, since implementing that we have all been much happier. The kids have been much more secure and playing more independently overall. I also feel like I get to spend time with my kids like I always dreamed would be part of parenthood, but I’m not bored and overwhelmed to the point where I can’t even appreciate it or be present for it. And I’m not worried about all the piles of dishes and laund...
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