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Mom-To-Be Princess Kate: Will She Be Royally Overwhelmed?

Lately, I have been royally overwhelmed.  It seems as if I have had so much to do for so long that I have lost my way in the maze of kids, husband, travel, book, work and just emergencies of one sort or another.  For the first time since I had Emily (baby #2, otherwise known as the one who didn’t sleep for 8 months) I feel as if I am in a fog.  I wake up tired and I go to bed with my brain in overdrive resisting sleep because of a relentless urge to make sense of the to-do list still undone.

 
 
Lately, Princess Kate is in almost every magazine in my grocery check-out line.  She has a demanding  calendar.  I couldn’t help wondering if she gets royally overwhelmed.  And then I thought, yikes, I hope not because she’s about to add a baby to her agenda.  Sigh.  Poor Kate, she’s going to be tired.  As a new mom with the demands of a more than full-time job and a husband devoted to his serving the entire country how will she maintain balance?  How will she find time to bond privately with her baby and serve publicly?  Will she feel guilty?  Pressure? Frustration? Overwhelmed?

 

Every mom feels overwhelmed at times.  I rarely feel as if I have done all I can do to parent well. I think Kate will have to create boundaries and carefully guard her parenting priorities. Haven’t you had to do the same?  How?  What advice would you give Kate to help her avoid being royally overwhelmed? 

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