this is the most refreshing article i’ve read.
my favorite part is the end: either make a sincere effort to understand, or keep your snit to yourself. oh, and also: it’s needing 45 minutes to do what takes others 15. SO TRUE!
today, i’m just full out exhausted. i had no time to make the costumes this past weekend because miss little a is pretty sick and we were busy taking care of her + slight procrastination(hehe) and miss A had her halloween performance at her school today which meant she had to wear her costume and i thought about just having her wear one of her many princess dresses she has but then i imagined her face and how sad and disappointed she’ll look in the morning when i tell her i didn’t make the costume so i stayed up from midnight to past 4 a.m making her costume. and if you haven’t noticed when i’m tired i like to keep my sentences as long as possible without any commas or periods and just say it all out in one breathe.
the end. (breathe.)
i just pinned that article. aaaaaand i blogged about it. it was that fantastic. thanks for posting.
p.s. when are we going to get together?!!!?
This is the best thing i have read in a long time! As i was just finishing reading it i turned to see miss 3 and master 1 tipping all the CD's out onto the floor after i had just cleaned it all up! hahahaha
I've seen that article somewhere else recently too. Clearly this lady has never been in the same room as small children for more than 5 minutes let alone had to care for them. Love Carolyn's response!
Oh My! what a great answer! My BFF doesn't have kids, and when I was first pregnant she started to get this snit going, and then with my first baby she told me I was rubbing it in her face that I had a family(when you have one, that's all you talk about…)This would have worked great for her. We have since gotten over that, but there is still a rift between us and will be until she has her own children.
Before I had kids I had NO idea how stay-at-home moms spent their day without getting bored. Now I know. Fantastic article! Wish everyone in the world could read it!
I just left you a comment I hope you got it!
looks like not… So I said I loved the end as well! So great!
And I hope you can find time to finish your costumes and get some rest! Oh and we figured out Kory's costume dilemma too. 🙂 I am excited to see your cute family all dressed up!
i've read this before – still so true!
I love this article too and will also pass it on!
I'm pregnant with our second and it was comforting and refreshing to read this article. (And is it bad that I also want to wave my arm and yell something like "Boo-Yeah!")
Sometimes I still have a hard time thinking I don't have that other life (the life with more time… my own time; my life without kids). While I think I've known these things, stated in the article, in my head for a long time, I, for some reason, think I can get those same things done and in the same amount of time as I did before. But that's just exhausting and it's been hard to really explain why I can't (to myself and others) without feeling like I'm making up some excuses. This article makes so much sense to me and is validating and true. Anyway… Thanks for sharing!
what she says in this article is so true !
PS I noticed that we were both published in the same magazine ~ how fun !