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Just reading this mom's honest morning routine post will make you tired

<em>Photo via Facebook/Liz Petrone</em>
Photo via Facebook/Liz Petrone

Does your work day start the moment you enter your office and sit at your desk? That’s cute.

Mommy blogger Liz Petrone wrote an honest Facebook post on what her (and plenty of other moms’) average morning schedule looks like — and we’re exhausted just reading it.

It starts with the difficult task of getting her four kids out of bed.

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“Some I gently patted, some I prodded, and one I pulled the covers off and tried to roll onto the floor when the pat and the prod fell short. I’m not proud of that last one,” she writes. “I made five beds, one twice because someone snuck into it and tried to go back into sleep. It *may* have been me.”

She flushes toilets that weren’t flushed, tells her children to brush teeth knowing they won’t be brushed and fished a “very wet pull-up out from under [her] bed.”

Somewhere in between she even finds the time to knock back two cups of coffee and take a shower.

After navigating the intricacies of getting four fussy kids dressed, dropping the older kids off at school (and driving back there again to drop off stuff they forgot), before finally watching the school bus take the younger ones off to school, she’s finally alone. But her work doesn’t stop there.

“I cleaned their breakfast out of my car and my kitchen and my hair. I dismantled pillow forts and unhooked Paw Patrol underwear from table lamps and threw in a load of laundry and reapplied the lip gloss I’d left on four cheeks in goodbye kisses,” she writes. “I fed and watered the dog and wiped down the counter and turned off the TV and the coffee maker and a hundred lights and locked up and fielded 12 text messages and 2 phone calls and 384 red lights. All before 9 a.m.”

By the time she sits down at her office desk, her Fitbit tells her she has walked 2.5 miles.

But Petrone isn’t looking for sympathy. She counts herself lucky to have four healthy kids and a job that offers her flexibility, but she does hope that others will recognize that being a working mom is tough.

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“I tell you this because if one more person says to me ‘Wow, it sure must be nice to be able to waltz into work at 9 a.m.’ I am going to lose it,” she writes.

<em>Photo via Facebook/Liz Petrone</em>
Photo via Facebook/Liz Petrone

“To the working mamas, I feel you. I feel you so hard right now. But more than that, to all the mamas, I’m raising my cup of (now cold) coffee. You keep on doing you, sister, whatever that looks like.”

Her post has struck a chord with many other supermoms and has received more than 14,000 likes and plenty of encouraging comments.

“5:30 a.m. riser here, with 3 kids, full-time job and full time in college. So I maybe get to hit the hay around 11 p.m.-ish. Somehow ladies, we just make it work. So here’s to all the badass mom’s making it work!” wrote one commenter.

“Thank you for sharing this! This is my journey as well, with co-workers who think I have easy mornings of laziness simply because I come in at 9, but we all know we’ve had a full day before we have even started the day,” wrote another.

Petrone caps off her post with this piece of advice: “Unless it looks like judgement. Ain’t nobody got time for that ish. Some of us have work to do.”

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