{"id":5958,"date":"2013-05-20T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/?p=5958"},"modified":"2013-05-20T09:09:42","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T14:09:42","slug":"struggle-blog-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/2013\/struggle-blog-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Struggle &#8211; Blog challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought about not participating in the prompt today. My blog is usually a happy place unless someone dies and I try not to write about the negative in my life if I don&#8217;t have to.<\/p>\n<p>This is my happy place to look back on our children&#8217;s childhood that is all too quickly flying by.<\/p>\n<p>BUT &#8211; a challenge is a challenge and I don&#8217;t have anything else to write about, it&#8217;s \u00a0fitting to my &#8220;now&#8221;, and being more real is never a bad thing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>My husband is a better parent than I am.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/husbandisbetter.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6265\" alt=\"husbandisbetter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/husbandisbetter.png\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/husbandisbetter.png 400w, http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/husbandisbetter-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the way I feel, at least.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have the energy I feel I need, and it seems I never get enough sleep, even when I do.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure my husband gets tired too, but he manages to keep going.<\/p>\n<p>My body just won&#8217;t let me. It just stops and I can&#8217;t force it to keep going.<\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t always like this. I used to be able to go-go-go.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if I reached my limit or if something more serious happened last year, after my surgery and infection.<\/p>\n<p>I get grouchy easily, too and it sets the mood for the entire day.<\/p>\n<p>There are no specific triggers and it can last anywhere from a few hours to a few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>My husband during all of this? He&#8217;s doing everything he can to keep his cool and not join me in my grouch-fest.<\/p>\n<p>He takes over at bedtime on the nights that I just CAN&#8217;T.<\/p>\n<p>I struggle with having the perfect house. When things are dirty or messy I can&#8217;t focus and it seems like a constant circle.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m okay with tidy but I can NOT do chaos.<\/p>\n<p><center><strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/storyofmylifetheblog.blogspot.com\/2013\/04\/blog-every-day-in-may-challenge.html\"><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/i1131.photobucket.com\/albums\/m553\/jennilu07\/May200x200_zpsf8349f10.png\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought about not participating in the prompt today. My blog is usually a happy place unless someone dies and I try not to write about the negative in my life if I don&#8217;t have to. This is my happy place to look back on our children&#8217;s childhood that is all too quickly flying by. 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