You didn't Fail

Mornings like this morning can be tough. I am a mom to 8 children. My nights or usually long and my mornings seem to start at 4am. My home is never completely clean. I can't seem to get all 8 kids to bed at exactly bed time. And I'm not good at keeping up with replacing the things we run out of. It seems there are always dirty dishes scattered, we are out of toilet paper, theres not enough milk for all of the kids to have a bowl of cereal or that someone is fighting over who has the hair brush. Well this morning is a morning where I have completely run out of baby formula! How could this be! I have a 4 month old and 8 month old that both drink bottles and wake up around 4 and 6 and sometimes more for a bottle... How could I forget their milk??? And the kicker to it all is I literally made 2 trips to walmart yesterday.. I forgot cheese and called my husband to grab some on the way home... how did I not realize that I only had enough formula for the bottle before!! I'll tell you how I'm only HUMAN! It's not about the number of kids that I have that made me forget. One kid can be alot to handle. It's being a mom and having to worry about everything. Washing clothes, giving baths, cooking dinner, cleaning up, helping with homework, running a kid to practice, paying bill's... being busy and always having the next thing you have to do on your mind. Yall life with kids is hard it doesn't matter if you have one or two or 10 it is still hard and it's so easy to feel like a complete failure! Well let me remind you...you didn't fail you just reminded yourself that your only human that everyone forgets things that no one is perfect so don't be hard on yourself. Give yourself a pat on the back. Embrace it! Say good job mom don't look back and get wound up and say if only I would have checked if only I would have done this then and that later, if only if only if only ...don't beat yourself up about it! Life can throw many curve balls at us and what defines us is how we react! Me with this whole formula situation I said lord what am I going to do and then it hit me.. a few weeks ago I forgot the diaper bag at home and we arrived at church and both baby's wanted a bottle so my husband ran to the store to buy formula while I went in to class with all the kids and for some reason he bought individual portions of formula.. a pack of four to be exact and I only used 2 I set the others on the bottom shelf beside the crib and completely forgot about them!!! So I run to the shelf and dug through the clutter to find only one of those bottles of premixed formula left... yes I thought to myself !!! one of my mishaps a few weeks ago saved me this morning! Some people call it luck but me I call it God! He always comes to my rescue and with God on my side I will never fail! I just show my imperfections and then I seek a plan to fix it! So no matter what you are going through just know that you are wonderful you are not a failure your human and if you seek God he will rescue you when you feel like your failing! Your doing great MOM! It's ok to feel overwhelmed, it's okay that you forgot to pay that bill, it's okay that one of your kids went to school with unbrushed hair and no socks, You rock! Your doing your absolute best! Never let anyone else define the person you are because I can guarantee you at one point in their life they have messed up too! We are all so perfectly imperfect. So go be you!