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  I know most moms are like me – trying to do it all.  I'm lucky that my kids are not yet at the "sports teams" age where we're running from practice to practice every night of the week. I still feel pulled in a thousand directions, though.  I have to manage my job at Point Park, PittsburghMom, being a mom, a wife, keeping up with the house, social calendar, bill keeping, exercising, dieting, etc.  There are days when I feel like I've got it all under control and that I'm the king of the world.

And then there are days when I look around and all I can see are things that aren't done.  The piles of unfolded laundry, the thank you cards I wrote but never mailed, the stacks of paper on my desk, the sneakers that I didn't put on to run today…  and I feel like a complete failture.

It's amazing how life can ebb and flow so quickly. One day we feel like we're on top of it all and the next day one little missed appointment can make it all come crashing down.  Then you start noticing all the things that aren't done.  Everywhere I look I see something that I haven't done that I should have done. 

My strategy is that I usually have a meltdown. My poor husband takes the brunt of it. About once a month I start looking around and seeing all the things that aren't done.  I freak out, cry a lot and tell him I simply "can't do it all".  Then he takes the kids for a few hours while I work like mad to get something done. Whether it's paying bills or organizing toys or cleaning the house, I always feel much more in control and then go another month before it all hits me again.

I think I need to start learning how to ask for more help or delegate more, I'm just not very good at that.

So tell me, does anyone else have days like this?  What's your
strategy? Do you cut back on what you need do? Simplify life? Or just
hang on for the ride and wait for things to feel in place again?

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  I know most moms are like me – trying to do it all.  I'm lucky that my kids are not yet at the "sports teams" age where we're running from practice to practice every night of the week. I still feel pulled in a thousand directions, though.  I have to manage my job at Point Park, PittsburghMom, being a mom, a wife, keeping up with the house, social calendar, bill keeping, exercising, dieting, etc.  There are days when I feel like I've got it all under control and that I'm the king of the world.

And then there are days when I look around and all I can see are things that aren't done.  The piles of unfolded laundry, the thank you cards I wrote but never mailed, the stacks of paper on my desk, the sneakers that I didn't put on to run today…  and I feel like a complete failture.

It's amazing how life can ebb and flow so quickly. One day we feel like we're on top of it all and the next day one little missed appointment can make it all come crashing down.  Then you start noticing all the things that aren't done.  Everywhere I look I see something that I haven't done that I should have done. 

My strategy is that I usually have a meltdown. My poor husband takes the brunt of it. About once a month I start looking around and seeing all the things that aren't done.  I freak out, cry a lot and tell him I simply "can't do it all".  Then he takes the kids for a few hours while I work like mad to get something done. Whether it's paying bills or organizing toys or cleaning the house, I always feel much more in control and then go another month before it all hits me again.

I think I need to start learning how to ask for more help or delegate more, I'm just not very good at that.

So tell me, does anyone else have days like this?  What's your
strategy? Do you cut back on what you need do? Simplify life? Or just
hang on for the ride and wait for things to feel in place again?

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