This Mom Nails the Reality of Mom Guilt In a Viral Facebook Video
With Love Actually-style signs, too.
By Mallory Schlossberg
Mom guilt isvery real. Between mommy Instagrammers who make life with kids look perfect and mom bloggers who somehow manage to make Paleo-vegan-no-sugar-no-anything-that-has-ever-been-featured-in-a-study-to-possibly-cause-harm lunches fresh from their own farms with their very own chicken's eggs (!!) and moms who have figured how to do yoga 4 times a day whose toddlers are already mini Lin Manuel-Mirandas writing musicals like The Hamilton Prequel: The Baby Years...it's hard. Fortunately, not all moms are smug pictures of perfection, and the Internet is rejoicing because it's a freaking relief (even to non-moms!).
Mom blogger Melissa Radke posted a video about those all-too-common feelings of mom guilt on Facebook, and it's getting a lot of attention. She makes her point Love Actually-style — only it's not creepy and she's not trying to destroy your marriage.
"Y'all share this. Please?" she wrote alongside the video. "It's my hope that someone somewhere is stinkin' it up like me. Thank you and bless."
She talks (...well, signs) about how her family hasn't had toilet paper for 3 days, how they haven't had laundry detergent for 2 weeks, and how she "gives zero craps." Her son's lunchbox contained Doritos, an egg, a pickle, and a Coke. OK. She says she's so "hungover from mom guilt" that she let her kids fall asleep in her bed.
And then — surprise — the reason she's doing the Love Actually style signs? She doesn't want to wake the kids. #momguilt
The whole thing is fun to watch. It's like a hat tip to the fact that there are only 24 hours in a day, and it's OK to admit you can't do everything.
Watch it below.
(h/t Someecards)
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