Parenting
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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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How to Stop Missing Out on Your Good Life
I’m currently obsessing about my weight- the 20 extra pounds I’ve found somewhere in the last couple of years. Can anyone relate? I can have ten really amazing things going on in my life, but if there is one annoying thing (like 20 pounds) in my life, it’s like a fly buzzing around my head- – -constant and irritating, it distracts from all the things I should be enjoying. It seems like at any given time, there is one….or two….or four things that take up too much time and space in my mind. We all go through seasons, and the THING changes, but the distraction remains. It could be a season…