I love my family. My husband and my two girls, almost 8 years and 2.5 years. LOVE them. I’m a SAHM so my entire life revolves around serving them and managing the home, cooking meals and just loving on them. I love it. But in this third trimester, by the end of the day I’m so achy and grumpy I feel like they’re not getting my best. I start out the day happy, energized, working around the house and cleaning and organizing. After picking my daughter up from school, coming home and doing homework, going for a walk, making dinner, most nights lately my oldest has had a bit of an attitude (hoping it’s a phase), the girls fight often. Having to be the referee for that. Then my husband comes home from a long day of work and my grumpiness has already started but hasn’t hit full blown yet. After dinner and trying again and again to get the kids in bed so I can soak in an epsom salt bath and soothe my aching feet and back (and butt), I’m just telling everyone to LEAVE ME ALONE! I hate that I’m like this but the past couple weeks it’s almost uncontrollable. Not sure what to do short of letting the house fall to pieces so my body doesn’t hurt at the end of the day.

Am I the only one feeling like this? This third pregnancy is so much different for so many reasons, but having two kids on top of being pregnant is proving to be one of the harder aspects to deal with.