JFF - How I Met Your Mother - Lily's Secret **Spoilers**

I saw the episode and I could soooo relate! And I often have thought about those new moms who teach elementary school and how they literally care for kids ALL DAY and ALL NIGHT! It must be exhausting. Same with being a SAHM. I have always been a working mom; I just don't have what it takes to be a parent 24/7. I need the break.

Hope it makes you feel better to KNOW that you are not alone and that is really is okay to say it out loud. It doesn't make you any less of loving mom; it makes you human!

Well, I have never seen the show except maybe snippets when I happen to be in the living room and they are changing channels or just happen to have it on ,but boy can I relate. I work full time outside the home and am on duty as it were as soon as I get in the door. Sometimes I do NOT want to walk through it. You get pulled in every direction. But I do not regret having my kids one bit. Hey, it would have been a ton easier to have one at a time with the 1st three but I wouldn't change that either. The last 2 were a shocker (first one did not know I could even get pregnant on my own and the other failed bc). But I wouldn't give them up either.

Kinda wish I had at least seen that bit of the show.

I watched it and i could so relate. My two children go to California every year for the month of July to spend time with grandparents and their auntie. well the first few days i feel footloose and fantsy free but by the third or fourth day i am okay the house is too quiet.
i love the comment pooping rainbows, that was funny.
anyway have a great day and many blessings

what?? you mean some people get rainbow poop????

Lol.. I missed that episode and yes I can relate. I like that show.

Your last sentence cracked me up! I'm sure there are some here with perfect kiddos. I love my just turned 18 yr old with all my heart and she is a great kid but no rainbow poop.

Anyone who says my child is wonderful, motherhood is perfect yada yada yada is lying lol. Every mother I have ever known, and since I am 62, I have
Known many, have had times where they want to run away. Oh that includes me for sure. My four were all a year apart. One day,,they were carrying on fighting etc. I lined them up on the couch,and yelled my name is not Mommy, my name is P.! They did not know what to think. Being Mama is not easy, I do not care what anyone says!

I saw that episode (love the show), and yes, I cried. She said it so perfectly. The first year I was a mom was one of the hardest things I have ever done in my entire life! My oldest is now 6 1/2, and I can still remember how desperate and overwhelmed I felt. It was just so constant, and I thought it would never get easier. It really does get easier, but at the time I just felt so trapped. Don't get me wrong, there were happy moments, and I do love my boys. But I absolutely had those feelings.

I read some comments on imdb.com (sometimes I get the feeling most of the posters there are teens and 20 somethings), and so many were saying that she's a horrible mom. That just made me chuckle a bit, because I had no idea what it would be like to be a mom ... until I was one.

didnt see the episode but i wish i did.. finally a show where they depict being a mom how it actually can feel.. i love my daughter with all my heart but there are days where shes not exactly a little ray of sunshine and i just want to hide in my closet for an hour lol
.. on an unrelated note.. i just want to know who their damn mother is!! who does ted marry and have kids with.. it drives me nuts

I was teary....

I think I had to overdo it to know I was doing it right, before I could back off and see the forest for the trees to realize I could relax a little and it would be ok.

I did cry, but I never felt that way. It did cause my husband to open up about the fact that he felt that way when our daughter was in the newborn, crying all the time for no reason, stage. I felt bad that he didn't feel like he could tell me before, but it was nice that that episode caused us to be able to be honest with each other.

I don't mean to say that I thought all kids poop rainbows or anything, but I never felt like leaving.

I don't watch T.V. but it sounds like that 'Mad About You' episode I caught on YouTube. The couple sits in the hallway coaching themselves through CIO. Most parents can relate to either show's situation. Some situations really do take experience to fully comprehend/understand/sympathize with/commiserate with/"get.". Kind of like that time my friend suggested a Halloween costume for my almost two year old involving a stick (read weapon). We looked at each and laughed. She said that was a suggestion only a non-parent would make so scratch the idea.

Saw it and while I don't think I could say I would go that far...there are definitely days where I wish I could be able to do some of the things I did when I was single! I think it was a bold move but honest and hit home for many!