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If Any of These Photos Look Familiar to You, It May Be Time For a Mommy Timeout
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Houses get messy, food gets spilled, things get broken — that's just how life is. But once kids are in the picture, those once infrequent incidents seem to become so much more commonplace — and further escalated — that it could feel like you're living inside a raging tornado at all times. If any of these photos look familiar to you, just remember, sometimes it's OK to take a step back (to laugh, to cry, whatever you need. We support you).

Read through to see 15 pieces of photographic evidence that prove it may be time for you to take a "mommy timeout."

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You caught your kid green-handed playing with the markers.
You followed the sound of silence to a disaster.
You haven't gotten sleep in days because your kid is always somehow touching you.
Your kid couldn't find a bowl big enough to dump the entire box of cereal into.
You went to start cooking and realized you were missing a vital ingredient.
Your kid tried to help you with a renovation task.
Or the laundry.
Your child is starting to apply the knowledge she's learned on television inappropriately.
You've discovered the end product of an unsupervised art project.
Your child got bored five minutes after his wake up and needed a fun project to do.
Your kiddo decided that the plain white wall paper just wasn't chic enough as is.
Nor was the couch's white leather.
Your child asked to watch Netflix on your laptop.
You just cleaned the entire house and in the time it took you to put the vacuum away, this happens.
THIS.
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