My Day As a Working Mom in GIFs

We play for awhile till it's dinnertime. Sometimes, I'm just so in awe of how cool she is and how fast she's growing up that I stare at her like this:
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Wake up, look at the clock and wish I could stay in bed longer:
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Husband leaves at 5:45 a.m., toddler wakes up at 5:46 a.m.:
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Give myself a quick pep talk, Hunger Games style:
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Spend the next hour and a half entertaining said toddler and somehow trying to get dressed and make my lunch. There's usually a lot of this:
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With me doing this:
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Cause taking five minutes to get my shit together makes my toddler feel like this:
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Then when it's finally time to head to daycare I'm like:
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I wish the drive to daycare was more like this:
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But in reality, I'm asked a million questions that always start with the word WHY:
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Get to daycare, drop her off, pull out of the driveway and I'm like:
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Head to work. I'm really lucky to have a job I enjoy. Most days this is me:
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Then when it's time to leave and pick her up I get excited because I miss her. Drive back to daycare and hope when we see each other it will be like this:
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But it's pretty much always like this:
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And I have to practically do this to get her to go with me into the car:
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Which once again results in this:
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But usually once we are in the car for a few minutes she gets like this:
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Then we get home and she sees daddy and gets crazy excited like this:
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And is all like this towards mama:
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Then we play for awhile till it's dinnertime. Sometimes, I'm just so in awe of how cool she is and how fast she's growing up that I stare at her like this:
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Then we sit down for dinner and she's all like this about her food:
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And we have to be super encouraging for her to get a full dinner in:
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But all she really wants to do is this:
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After dinner comes my favorite part of the day. Snuggles on the couch before bedtime:
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Then when it's time to brush teeth and get pj's on she's all like:
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When we tuck her into bed and shut her door, both the hubz and I are like:
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And then the hubs does this:
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While I'm all about this:
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And then we get up the next day to do it all again and wouldn't have it any other way! I love my little family so much that I feel like this:
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