You Woke Up Like What?

It's finally happening.  It's rare, but it happens.  My kids are growing up and, gasp, doing things for themselves!  Mad and Poo are both in school so I only have Tater home with me now.  And let me tell you, that kid is one independent little lady!  I really thought she would want me to play with her for hours on end once sisters went to school, but she really enjoys her alone time for about an hour each day to play with Duplo's or TinkerToys.  That being said, momma now has a few minutes each day to catch up on social media while drinking my morning water (can't stand coffee), still in my pajamas looking like a hot mess!

I guess I better go take that three minutes to brush my hair and put on some makeup.  

Okay, now that that's done.  While perusing previously mentioned social media, I came across a link to a series of pictures with the hashtag, #iwokeuplikethis.  Of course I clicked on it.  I mean, the opportunity to see how celebrities look when they wake up?  This should be fun!  

First up Beyonce.  Whatever.  We should always skip her.  She wrote a song about waking up flawless (lyrics which are so filled with curse words, I'm a little ashamed I read them before posting this!), so would you expect her to look anything less? 

Moving on....

I was next shown Gwyneth Paltrow who was chugging a bottle of water.  Hey!  I'm chugging my bottle of water too!  Wait.  I don't look like that.  Crap.  Next.

Zoey Deschanel.  Now, I'm feeling better.  She looks like she literally just woke up.  That one is believable.  Another person who actually stayed up too late, had to get up early and it shows.  Whoa!  

So what have I done here?  I have compared myself to three famous women.  The first two I saw as so beautiful there is no way I could ever compete with them.  I have put myself down and made myself feel like I'm not good enough because I don't look perfect, or flawless, when I wake up.  Sometimes I forget that I don't have a personal trainer, chef, assistant, housekeeper, etc at my beck and call!  Ugh, this reality really sucks sometimes.

Then I put myself on a pedestal when I saw Zoey.  As if to think, well maybe I don't look that unkempt when I wake up.  So does that make me better?  Absolutely not! 

Where is that good balance?  And lets be honest here, are these celebrities really that flawless?  And should seeing a celebrity looking their worse really make me feel better about myself?  It's like a never ending battle of right and wrong.  In our country, we are either too fat, too thin, too muscular, not enough muscles, thick thighs, too much thigh gap, big butt, no butt, blah, blah, blah.  

I am all of that.  The issue is that each person looks at another through their own eyes.  So to one person, I am too thin, but to another, I could stand to tone it up a little more and drop those few extra baby pounds I've kept after having THREE KIDS!  You know what I mean.  When someone says, "you look great....for having three kids!"  Um,.....thanks?  Even if I hadn't had three kids, I think I'm still looking dang good!  Even if #iwokeuplikethis!!!!!

So here, here Beyonce, Gwyneth AND Zoey!  I am flawless without having an entourage of people making me that way.  And if you're reading this, you're flawless too.  Don't believe me?  Watch this FLAWLESS video and have a wonderfully amazing day!

The Momma