The Midnight Google
The house is finally quiet. You should be asleep. You want to be asleep. You NEED to be asleep. But instead you're lying there in the dark with your phone six inches from your face, googling away.
It started as a quick check. One thing. A quick search so your brain will shut up and you can sleep. Now it’s an hour and 17 minutes later, and you're 23 tabs deep. The one little thing ballooned into conflicting answers, dug new rabbit holes, and resurfaced every single mom insecurity you’re ever had.
Welcome to the midnight Google. We’ve all done it.
And here’s the key thing: it's not crazy. It's not paranoia. It's not a sign that you're doing this wrong.
You’re a mom, tired beyond belief, but showing up. Still trying to figure it out well past when you wanted to be asleep. Caring enough to type is it normal for a six year old to {whatever} at 1:42am instead of just going to sleep like a normal person.
Normal is overrated.
That's the mom it out mentality. You can do this.
Googling the crazy questions is invaluable because it shows us that we are not alone in whatever we’re searching. Another mom has been there, has searched this exact thing, and more moms will search the same thing tomorrow, and the next day, and the next, and the next.
We'll go first.
- is it normal for a toddler to put ketchup on cereal
- will ketchup on cereal make a kid barf
- signs your child is gifted vs just really loud
- why does my kid smell like sweet onions
- why do i cry more than my two month old
- how do i remove sharpie from hardwood floors
- how can i feel lonely when i am literally never alone
- signs of anxiety in children vs just being a kid
- why can’t i sleep at night when i’m a zombie during the day and can’t wait to get in bed
- am I enough
That last one. Oof. But most of us have asked it, and it makes sense to be on the list, and that’s where knowing moms before you have asked this is so, so, so important.
If you’re wondering and asking, then yes, you are more than enough.
01Share Yours
Send us your midnight searches.
The funny ones, the scary ones, the embarrassing ones, the ones you'd never say out loud but typed into Google at 2am and then frantically cleared search history. The mundane ones and the ones that made your heart race a little while you waited for the results.
We're compiling a real, honest, unfiltered collection of the questions moms are actually asking.
Seeing them all together might be the most validating thing ever.