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>Different like everyone else

>I’ve been thinking a lot about what makes me stand out in a crowd, thanks for the All About Meme post from MommyBrain last week (sorry I’m a week late, D!). The challenge was to think of five things about me that make me different. When I read hers, I found that we were the…

>The Sink Trap

> A few years ago I read an article about how to have a successful marriage. I’m a sucker for such articles, even though they often are obvious or so patently wrong they make me angry. I’m too lazy to look up this particular one again, so you’ll have to accept my paraphrasing of it….

>What am I doing here?

>Sick Day number 7. This is getting completely ridiculous. It is only thanks to my helpful husband that I have not been long since buried in dishes and laundry since I take every toddler nap time to lie on the couch. It’s not to sleep, though that would be lovely. No, sleep is impossible when…

>You always have time…

>…for what you do first. I don’t remember where I read that quote, but I’ve been trying to live by it for about a year now.  I even tried to teach it to my fourth graders as a lesson in time management.  I think probably two of them got it and the rest just nodded…

>When you can’t do it alone

>I don’t know what it is about asking for help, but I am terrible at it.  There are probably a lot of reasons for this, which include the following facts: a) I like things to be done my way and therefore would often rather just do them myselfb) I see asking for help as a…