motherhood 2 years in: birthdays are shit

I sat down to journal “a little bit” in the weeks and days leading up to my kid’s 2nd birthday in Feb 2021, and what came out ended up being more like a novella instead of a simple journal entry.

Turns out I have a lot of Feelings + Thoughts™ on all the motherhood matters. So instead of posting them all at once, I’ve made it a series, if only to make it seem like I’m not pressuring readers into reading 10k words in one sitting. Here’s part 1, on kid’s birthdays, and how it’s really more about me LOL.

I am all onboard for giving people – kids, grown-ups, otherwise – a day to celebrate themselves and their existence. I personally LOVE birthdays and I always treat my own birthday as a sacred day, week, and month, during which I plan fun things for me to do with myself, favorite foods to eat, favorite places to go, favorite work to skip.

It’s all about treating myself and I enjoy having an excuse for an extra dose of self-love and self-care in many forms for basically the entire month of June. I think we all agree by now that we don’t need an excuse to treat ourselves to nice things, but I enjoy saving some things and making extra effort (read: spending more money) on myself in vari…