Having it all together

Ladies,
This one is for you.
Today I saw a sweet friend in the parking lot of The WalMarts. Now I don't see her all the time, but I did run into her last week at Lowes too. I was with John the other day and he had some of the girls and today I had them all by myself. She commented how big Gianna was, how she hadn't seen me with all of them by myself, and how it seems when ever she sees me I seem to have it all together.
Y'all I laughed out LOUD!
All together. Ha! Boy do I ever have her fooled.
I told her, "You know that's not true and we can't say that about other women."
She laughed and agreed. I then told her about my trip to Michael's yesterday. About how I got everyone dressed and out the door before 10 o'clock. I shopped and looked at what I needed to and went to pay. I had a nice discussion with the checker about getting to use both coupons- the whole reason for going to the store. Then (Do you know where this is going?) I put my hand in my purse to get my wallet and guess what? It wasn't there!!!!! I about lost it at myself. I had given myself a little mommy high five after I even got sippy cups for everyone. But no wallet to pay! HA.
So my point is this, We HAVE to stop comparing and holding ourselves up to this invisible incredibly impossible standard of perfection in mommies. I'm using my sin and failures to tell my girls that I'm not perfect. I need forgiveness and Jesus just like they do.
I actually did try to strive to have it all together. I thought that was what good mommies had to do. Then I had twins.
And Jesus showed me that it's OK to let someone help hold the door. It's OK to "borrow" a snack because you forgot to bring food for your children. It's OK to just be. It's OK to ask forgiveness from your three year old because you hurt her feelings yelling at her about something that wasn't her fault.
Here's what Paul said:

2 Corinthians 12:8-10

⁸Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. ⁹But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. ¹⁰That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

Thanks to all my friends who do share and laugh and help me. We are in it together- this sisterhood of mommydom. We need each other as perfect examples of how to fail.

The Girls' bathroom "all together."