This working mum just nailed why being a mum in 2019 is pretty freaking hard

Are there days when you are feeling at the end of your tether over trying to juggle it all – the kids, the house, work, schedules, your husband, your social life, the dinners, the everything?

You are not alone. "Don’t settle for second best, you can have it all!” These kinds of positive, motivational slogans are often used to empower women, to show that there are no limits to ambition and that a woman needn’t have to choose between a successful career and a fulfilling family life. However – mums, we all know that deep down, having it all usually comes with a pretty hefty price tag – and that being your mental health/energy/wellness. There is no denying that there is an enormous pressure these days – one that I don't think our mothers ever felt they needed to live up to – to live up to these high standards, and ‘show’ society that hard work, dedication and superhuman organizational skills can make ‘having it all’ a perfectly achievable goal. The thing is though – in this world of filters and social media hashtags of #blessed and #grateful, rarely do we get o see the actual real reality behind carefully curated snaps and stories – where I suspect many mums are flat out pretty freaking exhausted trying to juggle families, work, mental loads and their own public facade of having it all together. This was no doubt what occured to US mum-of-three Sarah Buckley Friedberg too, a microbiology manager for a medical device company, dog owner, loving wife and many, many other things. In a post that since went viral,  Buckley Friedberg admits she is pretty much done pretending that she’s breezing through motherhood, and ‘having it all’ is just a piece of cake. The amusingly written, eye-opening rant that shows just how crazy society’s expectations of American moms have become clearly struck a cord with mums worldwide, and rest assured you'll nod your head in agreement too: Here is her text in full: