How to enjoy motherhood

​One of the best ways I found to enjoy motherhood - and life, for that matter - is to just jump into the experience and play 💦

Play with my baby, my partner, myself, my environment.

With things like bedtime, ikea visits, feedings, car rides, and those end of the afternoon moments where baby is wanting party party clingy clingy while all I want is to nap.

Ugh things can get so serious in motherhood, with all the sleep deprivation, all the extra to do’s, and the absence of time and space for just being with yourself.

It’s easy to think motherhood will be better once you will have that time for yourself again. Once you can go out until whatever time in the night again, or take that 10-day nap you’re craving.

But you know, that’s probably not going to happen anytime soon, and life is now, so there must be another way right?

Everytime I resist my new reality as a mom, and blame it for why I can’t enjoy life, motherhood indeed becomes no fun for me. Very quickly.

But when I just jump into the experience, and decide to be fully present with myself and my baby, motherhood becomes the most fun I’ve ever had. Just as quickly.

Even with the little sleep, the three times a day cleaning baby’s extraordinary food mess, and allll the things that need to be washed 😳, arranged and taken care of.

For me it’s a wonderful journey into surrender. Into letting go of control. Letting go of how I thóught my life should be in order for me to have fun and bloom.

I’m realizing more and more that I held myself back for a long time, with my thoughts about a perfect life, my thoughts about what would bring happiness, or what it means to be ‘enlightened’.

Motherhood is making me come to the ground, embrace the messiness of everyday, the imperfection of my humanness, and find out that the biggest joy is exactly there.

Here. Now. Playing with the moment, just as it is.

Never thought I would enjoy this motherhood journey so much!