Survival Mode S'mores

You are not thriving today. Let us just be honest about that.

You are not the Pinterest mom. You are not the together mom. You are not the mom who meal prepped on Sunday and has a color coded chore chart and responded to all her emails and worked out before anyone woke up. That mom does not live here this week. This week you are the mom who found yesterday's coffee in the microwave and considered it a win. The mom who said sure, cereal for dinner is fine because the alternative required more than you had left.

And you know what? You kept everyone alive. Every single one of them. Fed, clothed, somewhat educated, emotionally supported to the best of your current capacity, and alive. That is not nothing. That is actually everything.

Survival Mode S'more is for exactly this moment. The one where you are not failing but you are definitely not winning and somewhere in the middle there is chocolate and toasted marshmallow and graham cracker holding it all together with the structural integrity of a woman running on spite and three hours of sleep.

Not thriving. Not spiraling. Surviving with taste. And today that is more than enough.

You made it. Pour yourself something good. You earned the s'more.

Four hours of sleep and spite. You've got this.