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As mothers, we want to do everything for our kids. We want them to have all the things we never had, and all the things we did have. Then we want to do everything for everyone else, too. We want to be the best professionals in the workplace, and the go to person for anything and everything. We want to be the star PTA mom with all the donations and all the volunteer hours. We want to share our time, talent, and treasure in our communities for the children and the elderly and the animals and the sick. We want to be the go-to friend, and we want to do all the trending social stuff.

Not to mention, we have a baseline of taking care of our families and ourselves. We need to keep house, feed our families, shop for food, clothes, and school supplies. We need to return something to Amazon every week, and drive someone somewhere every day. We need to make appointments, go to appointments, and cancel appointments. We need to make lists. We need to clean, we need to do laundry, and we need to exercise and drink all the coffee.

We want to do it all. (Read: I want to do it all.)

But we’re tired.

Tired of feeling like our lives have to be Instagram and / or Pinterest perfect. Tired of feeling like we’re being scrutinized, from our career (or lack thereof) down to what clothes our kids wore to school today. Tired of feeling like our choices, no matter how trivial, need to meet or beat some imaginary benchmark. Tired of feeling like we need to justify every single move we make. Tired of having an all or nothing mentality. Tired of being balls to the wall. Every. Single. Day.

So let’s stop, ok?

Let’s just do the best we can every day. If one day that means making those perfect lemon-blueberry cupcakes with the cream cheese frosting from Pinterest, awesome. If the next day you’re lucky to get the kids off to school before crawling back into bed, you do you. Get that rest, mama.

This blog will reflect the tried and true, the tried and failed, and most importantly: the memories that will last a lifetime.

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