{"id":44,"date":"2019-08-07T03:26:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T03:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ericamccann.com\/?p=44"},"modified":"2025-02-17T03:33:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T03:33:19","slug":"when-i-cant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ericamccann.com\/index.php\/2019\/08\/07\/when-i-cant\/","title":{"rendered":"When I Can&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today was rough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By 10am I had already yelled more than I care to admit. Amy had already exerted all the strength her 42 pound two-year-old self could muster against me as I tried to get her into her carseat, then once she realized we were going to the gym she lost her ever-loving crap. And then the rest of the day was breaking up fights between my two kiddos and trying to keep up on the house while also wishing I could just zone out and watch some trashy TV while eating things I shouldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So really, business as usual. But guys. Motherhood can be HARD. It\u2019s draining. Physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually, and whatever else there is that ends in &#8220;ally&#8221; draining. And some days we just get through the day and I call it a win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This song is about those days. The days where you just get through it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I actually started writing it laying in my bed, literally listening to my kids cry in their rooms because I had put them to bed earlier than they were used to and I was just DONE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I love this song. It\u2019s one that just fell out naturally (why does that sound like some kind of child-birth reference?). As I was writing it, I just felt this relief\u2026 like Jesus was saying \u201cGo ahead and rest. I\u2019ll take over from here.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway. Here\u2019s the lyric video. And heres to all you mamas who just made it through the day today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"When I Can&#039;t - Official Lyric Video - Erica McCann\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4AuwZTlfSzY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was rough. By 10am I had already yelled more than I care to admit. Amy had already exerted all the strength her 42 pound two-year-old self could muster against me as I tried to get her into her carseat, then once she realized we were going to the gym she lost her ever-loving crap&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[23,21,25,19,33,34,17,35,32],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mom-life","tag-homeschool-life","tag-homeschool-mom","tag-mom-life","tag-momlife","tag-motherhood","tag-motherhood-is","tag-sahm","tag-singer-songwriter","tag-tired-mom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ericamccann.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ericamccann.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ericamccann.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericamccann.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericamccann.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ericamccann.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45,"href":"http:\/\/ericamccann.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ericamccann.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericamccann.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericamccann.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}