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The Mom Expectations
Well-meaning people like to tell moms “You should take a rest!” Or the new catch-phrase, practice ”self-care.” The real problem, though, is not that we don’t rest once in a while. The problem is that we are trying to keep up with an impossible standard, and we haven’t even recognized it. We’re all attempting to be supermom, and we don’t even see it. We don’t seem to realize culture has set the bar so high for moms that no one can achieve it (without lying, or photoshopping, or hiring full time help). Let’s wise up to the expectations that are unwritten, yet entirely known: You have to…
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Kitchen Hacks I Promise Will Save your Sanity
My kitchen is the hub of our house. We do much more than eat in the kitchen. Homework takes place in the kitchen, the laptop has a permanent spot at the end of the table, papers get piled on the bar. I’m going to guess that somewhere >80% of all conversations in our house take place in the kitchen. But it’s also the hardest to keep tidy. Stuff gets dumped on empty counters like they have a magnetic pull. Empty counters are empty no more. I find rubber bands from braces, dirty socks pulled off feet, scissors and tape extracted from the junk drawer, and a stack of coupons waiting…
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Look Up!
Have you ever taken a walk, and realized that you never even saw the scenery? You went out to take in the outdoors, and all you saw was….your feet? I’ve done that more times than I can remember. You could have walked past me and I wouldn’t have even realized it. Why do we get like that? For me, it’s when I’m too wrapped up inside my own head. Maybe it’s a concern I have that I’m wrestling; I’m turning it every which way to come up with a ‘fix.’ Sometimes I’m in my own head because I’m experiencing guilt over something I did; I tend to want to…