How Being A Parent Has Changed My Life

Everyone knows that once you become a parent your life is going to change dramatically. Will it be for the good or for the worse is a question you just will never have an answer to until you become a parent yourself. Understandably so, there will be good times and bad but each moment as being a parent offers you so many life changes. Below is a list on how my life has changed since I became a mother on January 28, 2003 and again on June 16, 2009.

#1 Change
My life is no longer on my terms. I can not sleep late or stay up late these days. If I do, my disposition for my children is not a good thing to be had. I have to live my life on their routine and their schedule. To be honest, I do miss those really late sleep in days, and staying up later at night, but after 7 years of not being able to have that on a regular basis, my body does not know how to act when I do get a rare chance to snooze away til noon. I realized one day when I was able to that I could not manage the day at all.

#2 Change
I have a deeper relationship with the Lord. After my first son was born I wanted to allow him to be more involved in the church then I ever was. I started taking my child to church to allow this to happen and in the same aspect I opened up my heart more to my religion and cherished the relationship I had with my Savior in Christ. This is a great change in my life because now I have developed the strong religious beliefs I seeked for so many years on.

#3 Change
Fear and anxiety have really kicked in on high terms. I live with so many fears throughout the day, when I use to leave my days carefree. Wit each step I take I have to say to myself, "will this cause my sons to not have their mommy around?". My biggest fear in my life is my children not having their mom while they grow up. I often sit here and let my mind get the best of me and think of the worst case scenarios if I was no longer around to be a part of their lives. This change has put a big dent in me and raised my blood pressure.

#4 Change
This change has to be one of the best that has happened, and that is I do not care what people think of me anymore. I do to an extent where I stay classy about things, but if I am in the store and I just want to bust out in an awesome tone deaf rendition of Staying Alive with my children, I will do so. I do not care if the person next to me does not like how I sing, or if people start to laugh because of how silly I look, it is all in the fun of the moment and as long as it makes my kids laugh and smile, no-one can stop me from acting like a fun mom.

#5 Change
I have become OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) when it comes to messes. I used to not have a care in the world if the place I was in stayed clean. If I didn't pick up a dish or towel in a couple days it would not phase me. Ever since I pushed a beautiful boy into this world, my mind will not allow a dish to set in one place no more then two minutes before using it.

Even though this is a very small list and there is so many more changes that have occurred, these are the majority ones that have changed, I would not change my life now for anything. I love all the changes that have occurred, well the good ones and I am gettigng use to the bad ones.