Time for yourself as a mother...

I find that time for myself includes never. I can be online doing some of my random searches or checking email and I'm constantly being pulled away from it for something. I can be in the shower and shes right there with me unless she is asleep. Heck, even going to the bathroom isn't a private matter as a mother of a toddler. My daughter is almost always right at my feet or close by. Which I love, don't get me wrong being a mother is the best part of my life. My daughter has taught me more about life than anyone or anything ever could. She has truly given meaning to my life in a way nothing else could. I just find it humorous how every moment of every day its all her all the time. Every time I go to run an errand she has to go with me or she will be very upset. She has a wonderful father but I am the stay at home parent so she is with me more than with him. She is a total daddy's girl the second he walks in the door but she then she wants both of us not just one or the other. She also asks about him all day long and I remind her he is at work and that seems to make her feel at ease. I just never realized how needy children truly are when they are so young. I guess you can't really know until you have children. I love it though I really do.