This Too Shall Pass

Here's a piece of advice everyone loves to give a new mom: this too shall pass.

This particular piece of advice used to drive me nuts because I felt like people were taunting me. Like they were saying that whatever struggle I was facing with Jack would pass once I figured out what was wrong or that it would pass once I fixed things.

But that's where I was wrong. People literally mean what they are saying. Babies are strange little creatures, and you can't always figure them out. They'll do something that seems to make no sense (Jack would sleep in his carseat in the car, but once I moved the carseat into the stroller, he would lose it and scream until I rescued him), and then one day, out of nowhere, they change. They stop doing the thing that was driving you crazy without you doing anything different.

Knowing something will pass doesn't always help in the moment, but what did help me was remembering that I was already doing the best I could, and that sometimes, all you can do is take a deep breath and keep going. Because the way things are now may not be the way they are tomorrow.