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Category Archives: familyFor more than fourteen years, I have considered my job as an exercise in futility. The job? Motherhood. The futility? Everything I do today must be redone tomorrow, and nobody notices a single thing I do… unless I don’t do it. Over and over and over. Do you know this feeling? The second the laundry... It’s creeping up on me – this weekend, when so many things are my responsibility, and I am prepared for NONE of them. I’m dabbling in the art of overscheduling myself this week, and it appears that I’m capable. I can create too much junk for me. But it’s all good junk (and so I... Once upon a time there was a very young Mommy who had one sweet, beautiful, well-behaved child. (Oh, stop. This is all true.) This happy child loved her Mommy and followed her around, sat still for hair-doing, and went to bed without any fussing. The young Mommy thought, “I must be the best Mommy God... |