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Overwhelmed Doesn’t Mean Ungrateful

If you’re on social media for any amount of time you pretty quickly see that there is mixed content. Some of it is positive and gives you really good ideas to implement or things to think about. But sometimes content leaves you feeling like a failure, even if it was posted with the best intentions. There’s a post that circulates every now and then that says something along the lines of “What a privilege it is to clean this home that was disorganized by my healthy children pla

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Time Won’t Slow Down, But You Can

Every mom I know has said it at least once, probably while changing out clothes for the upcoming season and realizing how big the next size looks all of a sudden, “I just wish time would slow down.” I know that feeling. The baby years somehow crawl and fly at the same time, and then you blink and you’re drowning in homework, juggling practices, and wondering when your child’s shoes got bigger than yours. But here’s the thing: time didn’t speed up. We did. Somewhere along the

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Back-to-School Doesn’t Have to Mean Back-to-Sick

It happens every year like clockwork. The backpacks are still new. The lunchboxes aren’t even sticky and stained yet. The grumbling about homework hasn’t started when you hear it: the sniffle. The cough comes next, or worse– someone falls victim to a stomach bug that you pray doesn’t hit everyone in the house. It doesn’t take long before you’re on a first-name basis with the school nurse. Every year, parents swap the same theories: “They just need to get used to the germs.”

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