"I, Lin Xiaoman, a former creative director of an advertising company and now a stay-at-home mother, am going through the most difficult career transition in my life - from handling clients to handling a little ancestor who can't speak."
When I handed my resignation letter to my boss, I thought the hardest decision had been made. It wasn't until I queued up at the Children's Hospital at three in the morning while holding my baby with a fever of 39 degrees that I realized that the real challenge had just begun.
From a professional elite to a stay-at-home mother, I experienced the biggest gap in my life. Wearing diapers inside out, making complementary foods into dark dishes, using talcum powder as milk powder... These are just entry-level mistakes. What's even more terrifying is having to deal with surprise inspections from the "parenting expert" mother-in-law, and the husband who is always working overtime but thinks he knows a lot about parenting.
But in these hectic days, I gradually discovered: the touching feeling when the baby called "Mom" for the first time, the heartwarming feeling of my husband secretly getting up to change diapers in the middle of the night, and even the transformation from confrontation to alliance with my mother-in-law... These small blessings turned my daily breakdown into the most precious gift in life.
This is a diary of laughter and tears written for all mothers who are struggling on the road of raising children. Here, there is no perfect mother, only real life; there is no textbook parenting experience, only growth gained through constant trial and error. Let's laugh together and face those crazy yet heart-warming times of raising children!
