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How do you have time to blog?
I’ve gotten this question a lot – how do you have time to blog? If you’ve read any of my kid-related posts, you know that I’ve seriously got my hands full. However, I would not call myself a super-mom. The truth is that my blogging (and cooking, for that matter) are things that I really enjoy doing and so I make time for them. Everyone has things that they make time for – exercise, sleep, reading, Facebook, TV – no judgment at all on how people choose to use their time, but my point is that I choose to make time in my day for the things that make me…
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The things I used to take for granted
I write this post from the plane, on our way back from a much-needed vacay to Vegas for my husband’s 30th birthday. This was a kid-free trip, and while I knew we needed to recharge, I was reminded of the simple things that we used to take for granted – before we were parents. Sleep. Uninterrupted sleep that begins and ends when you say so. There is a tiredness associated with parenthood that is incomparable to any other cause of fatigue. Yes, you can be tired from a late night of partying, an all-nighter studying or an overnight shift at work. But the parent version of tired is different because…