No One Cared Who I Was Until I Put On The Mask Shirt

Sometimes I feel like I’m pretending at motherhood. Yes, even after all these years. Pretending. But I don’t want anyone to see that, honestly, that stumbling around, that fumbling, so I put on the mask of No One Cared Who I Was Until I Put On The Mask Shirt. The I have it all together and pay no attention to me who really has no clue what to do next kind of mask. I hate that feeling honestly. Especially after I’ve been a mom for so long.

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You might see me in the pick up line or at Target or at the pool and think she’s got it all together or if I only could be like her or look at her van, it’s all cleaned out. No One Cared Who I Was Until I Put On The Mask Shirt. The mom behind the mask, behind the glasses, behind what you can see.

My friends don’t care about that mask, you know. They can see me behind those glasses. They love me despite. And I love them too for their very imperfect lives as well. There’s no shame, No One Cared Who I Was Until I Put On The Mask Shirt. All the masks do is make all of us pretty darn exhausted. And suck the breath from our lungs right when we need to yell at two of our kids to stop fighting over the xbox controller.

Yet that I’ve got it all together mask is so hard to put it down. It’s so hard to be No One Cared Who I Was Until I Put On The Mask Shirt. It’s freaking scary to be the mom who has the Bravo life versus the Hallmark life. How did it get this way? When did it move from hey let me help you build your barn to I can’t let her in my front door unless it looks like a picture from Pinterest?

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Seriously, the reason it gets so messed up is that we live in a culture where we’ve decided it’s risky to admit that we need each other or that our lives are challenging and instead of opening up we smile, wave, drive into the garage and No One Cared Who I Was Until I Put On The Mask Shirt. And then all we can see are the comments on social and the pictures of everyone else appearing to have it together and thus we assume, like I do, that somehow I do not.