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Kristin Hensley - #IMomSoHard

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Has it been months since youve read a book with actual adult words that had nothing to do with farm animals or superheroes or going potty? Well then, its time to take a break. Pour yourself some wine. Put on your comfy pants. All good? Ok, welcome to the party.Kristin Hensley and Jen Smedley, the creators of #IMOMSOHARD, know that you probably didnt get to shower today and that the last thing you need is more advice on how to be a better parent. Instead, they invite you to join their laugh-out-loud, best friend banter on the eighty bajillion ways moms give their all every dayincluding:I KEEP IT TOGETHER SO HARDI BODY AFTER BABY SO HARDI HIT THE TOWN (AND AM IN BED BY 9:30 P.M.) SO HARDI BUST MY ASS SO HARDI KEEP FOOLS ALIVE SO HARDCome for the laughs, stay for the kinship with two friends who are just getting it right, getting it wrong, and leaning on each other for a laugh at the end of the day. They dont care if your house is a mess and they wont judge you if you pee a little when you sneeze. So kick back, relax, and enjoy. You deserve it.

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(Raising a glass)

This book is dedicated to:

Finn and Dashiel, the boys who made us moms

Delilah and Eleanor, our girls,

who may one day be moms

Our own moms, Terri and Barbara

Our dads, Dewey and Jerry

And our loving husbands, Brit and Colin,

the official Mom Makers in our lives.

Most of all, this book is dedicated to all the moms!

We see you.

We get you.

We love you.

Contents
HEY, FRIEND!

Were Kristin and Jen. We are currently typing this on a laptop in a car in a parking garage. There is a bag of ravaged Chipotle next to us. We are text fighting with our husbands. We will be late to pick up the kids. To make matters worse, this laptop was dropped on the way to get the kids in the car this morning, so the space bar is hanging on by a thread. Like us.

Tonight, we will do our best to feed the kids, get them ready for tomorrow, give them love, praise, and encouragement, and wrestle them to bed. We will then put on our comfy pants, which are only getting tighter, clean up the house, and spend five to ten minutes prepping for tomorrow. We will pour a glass of wine, the signal that we are off duty. Only we are not, of coursea mom is never off the clock. Shes simply on call, as at any moment someone could barf, have a nightmare, want to know why people die, or simply think their pajamas feel too bally all of a sudden.

Why are we saying we? Dont we have our own brain? Sometimes we do. And sometimes we dont feel like we have one at all. But were best friends, so we share a brain, or at least similar thoughts, all the time. Since becoming mothers, the thought we share all the time is Boy, I really suck at this.

We know were lucky. For so many reasons. The number one reason is that we have wonderful children, husbands, and families, and were all okay. But were also lucky because we have each other to lean on when our children, husbands, and families drive us absolutely bonkers.

We started the web series #IMOMSOHARD because we made each other laugh, and we made each other feel better when we felt like we were really failing at motherhood. We figured that if another mom saw the terrible job that we were doing, she might feel better about the job that shes doing. When youre up all night breastfeeding or taking care of a sick kid, you can find a lot of stuff online that tells you how to improve upon the job youre doing, or how tragedy can strike you or your innocent child at any moment. Real depressing stuff. No thanks.

The truth is, you dont need advice; you need understanding. Because theres nothing like feeling alone and then hearing that someone else is going through the same mess you are. Weve done it for each other, and we want to do the same for you. So heres the stuff we like to talk about when we get together. It makes us laugh. It makes us feel better. Hopefully it will do the same for you. Because youre not alone. While you read, youre off duty for a few minutes. Pour yourself a glass of wine and have a little me time with we. (Unless youre reading this in the bathroom, as moms often must. Then have a little wee-wee time with us.)

LOVE, KRISTIN & JEN

Before we get started, let us tell you how we got the idea to #I MOM SO HARD.

We both lived in Nebraska through college, but we never found each other even though its not heavily populated and you can see for a hundred miles in every direction. We had all the same friends. We were studying the same subjects, and we went to all the same bars. Kristins roommate was even in an improv group with Jen, and yet we never met. It was like Sliding Doors, but with more Cornhuskers gear. A bunch of near misses.

After college, we both moved hundreds of miles away from Nebraska and somehow ended up only a block apart from each other in California. Not that we knew it, though. We were doing all the same things, had all the same friends, and we still never met. We werent total twinsiesJen was into weird witchy shit (shes not a Wiccan or anything, but she believes in crystals and stuff) and felt naked without jewelry, and Kristin was more of a tomboybut it is insane that the stars didnt align and arrange a meet-cute for us.

And then one day, the universe caught us. We found ourselves outside a small, weird theater that used to be a hair salon, drinking brews in the parking lot, which was a welcome throwback to our Nebraska days, minus the banging sounds of Warrant. Even that night, it took us a while to meet. We kept circling and narrowly missing each other, until, finally, we were back-to-back loud-talking to different people about Nebraska. We both turned to each other in unison and said, Wait. Youre from Nebraska?

Now imagine a Rolodex flipping really, really fast as we shouted out the names of every single person that we knew in common. It was like we were mad at each other:

Jen:

KRISTY SCHWEDE?!

Kristin:

I WENT TO SCHOOL WITH HER! HOW DO YOU KNOW HER?!

Jen:

WE BOTH WORKED AT TGI FRIDAYS!

Kristin:

CARRIE SMILEWOOD?

Jen:

YES!

Kristin:

NO!

Jen:

SHES BEEN MY BEST FRIEND SINCE WE WERE LIKE 15!

Kristin:

MICHELLE ASHLEY?

Jen:

I DID IMPROV WITH HER!

Kristin:

SHES MY ROOMMATE!

Jen:

NUH-UH!

Kristin:

YES-HUH!

Jen:

I WAS AT HER GRADUATION PARTY!

Kristin:

I THREW THAT PARTY!

We exchanged phone numbers and started hanging out a day or two later. We just began in the middle. It was like we didnt have time to pussyfoot around, so we acted like wed known each other all along. We got each other right from the beginning. You know when youre a little kid and you would stare awkwardly at the kid in front of you and ask, Do you want to be my friend? And that kid would say, Yes, and then you were bound for life? That was us. One of us would call the other and be like, Hey, Ive got Ritz and spray cheese and half a bottle of wine left. You want to come over? And the other one would say, Give me five minutes. It felt like being home.

We hung out constantly. We flipped each others shit, and we laughed. A lot. When you have a friend who can make fun of you for your excessive gray hairor your lip hairits the most wonderful medicine. It takes all the air out of how serious any situation is, and thats what we try to do for each other. We also respected each other, and we celebrated each others wins. Not everything was a friggin Hallmark movie or one big Sarah McLachlan song, but for the most part, we had a sense of humor, and we were tougher together.

We met during that Im not sure what Im doing with my life, but I know that Im doing it wrong phase of adulthood. If youre single, you start to feel like you should be married. And if youre married, you ask yourself, Why did I do this to myself? Because we were both single, we spent most of our time on our careers: Kristin as a teacher and a commercial actor (when the work came), and Jen as a salesperson for skincare products and a writer (when the work came).

We were able to be very patient and understanding with one another because we were both fighting the same good fight: survival. Keeping your car running. Paying your bills. Going to the dentist. Looking happy. You know, the same stuff you try to do now, only while youre also keeping unappreciative children alive.

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