Things which encourage me to believe I have it all together:

  1. Waking up on a school day at 8:25am and getting both children dressed, fed, brushed, and out the door, ON TIME.
  2. Taking naps in the afternoon.  Just because I can.
  3. A clean kitchen.
  4. Folded laundry.
  5. Putting my kids to bed at 8 o’clock and being done for the night.  Every night.
  6. Eating Brussels sprouts and meatloaf (childhood punishment foods) and liking them both.  A lot.
  7. Letting Eliott do Play-Doh in my kitchen for the first time in her life under my direction and not having even a single conniption, mental or otherwise.  (Note: this was also well before my 4:30 clock-out-and-start-drinking-time.  Double bonus.)
  8. Spontaneous 4 year old announcements like, “Today I’m going to have a good attitude all day,” and “I have a lot of work to do in my room, Mom.  You can see when I’m done.” (This means she’s picking up.  By herself.)

Things which bring me back down to earth:


One last point about that “having it together” thing:

  1. My presence of mind to take a picture of this.


Published by claire

I realize I lack tact. I realize I often speak/type and inadvertently hurt feelings as a result. But I strongly maintain that if the majority of humanity would simply succumb to saying what they mean without worry of how it sounds, sensitivity rates would drop, globally, and perhaps world peace would be at hand.

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