You Are a F*cking Awesome Mom Quotes

“Becoming a mother will test you and push you and fill a part of your soul that you never knew existed. It will teach you how strong you are,”
― Leslie Anne Bruce, You Are a F*cking Awesome Mom: So Embrace the Chaos, Get Over the Guilt, and Be True to You

“The idea is that you can’t give 100 percent of yourself to everything every day, but you can give 100 percent of yourself to everything on specific days.”
― Leslie Anne Bruce, You Are a F*cking Awesome Mom: So Embrace the Chaos, Get Over the Guilt, and Be True to You

“It took some time getting used to, and it’s not all sunny days, but life with my children is better than anything I had before. You might not feel the same right now, but you will. I promise.”
― Leslie Anne Bruce, You Are a F*cking Awesome Mom: So Embrace the Chaos, Get Over the Guilt, and Be True to You

“The moral of the story isn’t to keep you from having children altogether or to force you into the complete resignation of your former self but rather to help you to understand that what you’re feeling is common, that you are not the only woman to feel this way, and that it does work itself out. Periods of transition are just that… periods. It’s not forever, and you will come through it.”
― Leslie Anne Bruce, You Are a F*cking Awesome Mom: So Embrace the Chaos, Get Over the Guilt, and Be True to You

“I focused on what I was giving up in motherhood and not enough on what I was gaining”
― Leslie Anne Bruce, You Are a F*cking Awesome Mom: So Embrace the Chaos, Get Over the Guilt, and Be True to You

“Giving your baby organic, grain-free, homemade snacks (while you eat a cheeseburger). Letting your baby cry at bedtime when you’re sleep training. Noticing your baby is overtired. Not feeling guilty.”
― Leslie Anne Bruce, You Are a F*cking Awesome Mom: So Embrace the Chaos, Get Over the Guilt, and Be True to You

“Skipping story time. Letting your child watch TV or an iPad. Breaking from your child’s routine. Being so strict about your child’s routine. Daydreaming about life before baby. Spending money on yourself. Picking your baby up late from nursery school or day care. Reading a book that isn’t about parenting. Crying in front of your kid. Giving your baby nonorganic, non-grain-free, non-homemade snacks.”
― Leslie Anne Bruce, You Are a F*cking Awesome Mom: So Embrace the Chaos, Get Over the Guilt, and Be True to You

“Leaving your baby with childcare when you’re working. Leaving your baby with childcare when you’re not working. Not having more patience. Not having time to sanitize pump parts. Not doing more tummy time. Letting your baby cry during tummy time. Going out on date night. Drinking wine and having to dump your milk. Drinking wine and not dumping your milk. Giving your baby toys with batteries. Quitting breastfeeding.”
― Leslie Anne Bruce, You Are a F*cking Awesome Mom: So Embrace the Chaos, Get Over the Guilt, and Be True to You

“SHIT YOU NEED TO STOP FEELING GUILTY ABOUT. Going to work out. Having lunch with friends. Missing bedtime. Not generating a better income.”
― Leslie Anne Bruce, You Are a F*cking Awesome Mom: So Embrace the Chaos, Get Over the Guilt, and Be True to You

“I needed to reevaluate what I consider a win. There”
― Leslie Anne Bruce, You Are a F*cking Awesome Mom: So Embrace the Chaos, Get Over the Guilt, and Be True to You

“If you can carve out twenty minutes each day to put down the phone, get on the floor, and just be with your little person, I guarantee it is more meaningful”
― Leslie Anne Bruce, You Are a F*cking Awesome Mom: So Embrace the Chaos, Get Over the Guilt, and Be True to You

“Every day, make one thing a priority and allow everything else to be secondary. The next day, switch it up! Of”
― Leslie Anne Bruce, You Are a F*cking Awesome Mom: So Embrace the Chaos, Get Over the Guilt, and Be True to You

“What you feel is only seventy percent of what you were capable of before children might now be your hundred percent.”
― Leslie Anne Bruce, You Are a F*cking Awesome Mom: So Embrace the Chaos, Get Over the Guilt, and Be True to You

“Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.” —MAHATMA GANDHI”
― Leslie Anne Bruce, You Are a F*cking Awesome Mom: So Embrace the Chaos, Get Over the Guilt, and Be True to You

“Like clockwork, the sun would rise and then slip away again before I did anything that I considered productive (because I was clueless enough to think that sustaining a human life all on my own wasn’t enough).”
― Leslie Anne Bruce, You Are a F*cking Awesome Mom: So Embrace the Chaos, Get Over the Guilt, and Be True to You

“When I stopped trying to force myself into my old shell, I finally found peace in the new woman I had become.”
― Leslie Anne Bruce, You Are a F*cking Awesome Mom: So Embrace the Chaos, Get Over the Guilt, and Be True to You