Earplugs are your friends

My house is loud. Like—LOUD, loud. Like I need to sit and stare at the wall in complete silence sometimes just to balance things out, loud. Like there are 5 of us and it’s as if we are all competing to who can be heard the most, loud. Spoiler alert, my youngest is winning because that girl has some LUNGS.

And I have sensory challenges with noise, so as you can see, this isn’t the most ideal environment for my poor, poor ears. Most days, my ears are ringing from the time I wake up, until the sweet sweet silence after bedtime.

I’m fine, everything’s fine. What’s that? Sorry, I couldn’t hear you over all the fine-ness happening.

But ever since I realized that I could tune a lot of this out with my noise canceling AirPods, the noise has become a lot more bearable. (Side note: this is not a sponsored post, I’m just PROFOUNDLY grateful for this product.) Honestly, I need to just get really good earplugs because AirPods are expensive and earplugs do the exact same thing for a lot less $$$. But the noise canceling really does affect my mental health in very positive ways. I’m not as strung out when I don’t have to hear the exact decibel that is apparently required in sharing Paw Patrol toys. I can stay calm when I have to play referee, even though there are at least 2 children in my face at all times, passionately telling me why they are the victim and not the criminal in the situation. I can still hear everything, but it’s more muffled—it’s like it takes the edge off.

And it’s glorious.

So, if you’re like me and have sensory challenges, or you, too, have a ridiculously loud home, earplugs may just be for you! But get the good ones—you know the ones that squish and shape in your ear??

Hear that? Yeah, me neither.