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Terrible at Everything

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 The time I burnt a plastic storage container to the stove because I turned on the wrong burner while doing 10 other things... I just have to blog about For The Love by Jen Hatmaker one last time.  Buy this book - it's perfect.  You need it.  It will make you laugh, it will make you cry.  It will make you dig deep and think about why you do what you do.  Add it to your Christmas Wish List!  Really. Here's some of the good stuff from her book: ----- "The only thing worse than this unattainable standard is the guilt that follows when perfection proves impossible.  Sister, what could be crazier than a woman who wakes children up at dawn, feeds and waters them while listening and affirming their chatter, gets them dressed and off to school with signed folders, then perhaps heads to a job to put food on the table or stays home to raise littles who cannot even wipe, completes one million domestic chores that multiply like gremlins, b...

Licensed to Laugh

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While reading (and thoroughly enjoying) Jen Hatmaker's For The Love , a number of things have occurred to me.  Things I knew but have forgotten.  Things I haven't realized.  Things I should keep in the forefront of my mind. Number one on the list is I have a license to laugh.  To find humour in things.  To find joy in life.  Life is not meant to be drudgery. My go-to release is laughter.  In the most stressful situations, I laugh.  And sometimes it seems totally inappropriate.  Like when my dear hubby was sick and dehydrated with the flu a few years back.  I called a precious friend late at night and asked her to sit with our children while I took my invalid husband to the ER, which she did, because that's what friends do.  Hallelujah! Because he was having issues with our friend Mr. UpChuck, they immediately provided him with a hospital approved barf receptacle. It had a white plastic ring and and expandable blue plasti...