Parenting is all consuming. Having babies puts your whole life in perspective. And I’m lucky enough to have a wife and partner that I share this journey with. We can take turns. Trade off. Juggle having two kids together.
But. It. Is. All. Encompassing.
I have a full time job on top of the job of parenting and sometimes it feels like the pressure will never release. And it’s hard to balance the level of fatigue I feel with having to be a good parent, good wife, and good human.
But then there are quiet moments. Where I’m in bed with one son snoring next to me and the other in my wife’s arms and I feel like everything is right with the world and that this is exactly where I belong.
All consuming is wonderful and hard and intense and exhausting and amazing and enriching and it makes me want to do better. Strive to be better. Stronger. More patient. It’s a gift to have something so damn precious as a family.
