When your patience is gone

You ran out. That doesn't make you a bad mom. It makes you a person who has given and given without much coming back in.

Patience isn't something you either have or fail at. It runs low, like anything you keep spending. And it does come back, a little at a time, in small gaps like this one.

You don't have to fix everything that's waiting for you. You just have to get through the next few minutes. That's a size you can manage. Start there.