I’m working on securing a gig as a contributing writer for a new website in Baton Rouge and I’m super excited about it. Once everything is finalized I will share it with you. As part of this process, I was asked to submit a headshot and a short bio.

Here’s the thing. I went to the site and read the bios of the three founders of the site and they are all amazing women. They’re not only mothers, but also accomplished people. As if simply being a mother isn’t a big enough accomplishment, right? I kind of think it’s fine to stop there, at motherhood. No need to continue trying to accomplish anything of real value, you’ve gone and done it — you’ve created and sustained life. Go ahead and check out for the rest of your life, Momma. Your life’s work is complete.

Today, my big accomplishment was trekking to Sam’s Club with two small children and buying $161 worth of bulk items, with a drooling baby strapped to my chest and a snot-nosed toddler in the shopping cart. I then loaded all of those bulk items one by one — because Sam’s Club does not believe in grocery bags — into the back of my van. I wiped noses and changed diapers and unloaded those same bulk items one by one into my house. 

After reading about these other women, I feel inspired to eventually accomplish more than just creating and sustaining life and buying in bulk. Although … if I stopped now and just walked away from accomplishing anything but the bare minimum to maintain survival, I would still be pretty proud of myself. My real accomplishments to date aren’t measurable. It’s just a bunch of little things that will hopefully, eventually, add up to something big.