Overwhelmed

Some days I am so overwhelmed that I feel as though I'd rather sit in my parked car than face the real life chores that exist in my life on a nightly basis. I am fairly certain that you ladies out there - married or not, working or not, know exactly how I feel.

You pick up your child(ren) at the end of a long workday, drive home starving because the child in your tummy needs sustenance every few hours on the regular, pick up the mail, get the trash ready for your husband to take out in the morning, bring in two school bags and two lunch boxes, help your child undress, potty, and wash hands, prepare a healthy snack, open the mail, throw out the mail, throw laundry in the dryer, start a new load in the wash, check your voicemail, begin cooking dinner, lay out clothing for the next day, re-pack lunches, text your husband with what groceries to pick up on his way home... all of this on a "normal" day, and you haven't even begun to grade papers, work on your Master's papers, chat with your Mom, read to your child(ren), or sit down for more than two minutes at a time...

Working women with mouths to feed and houses to clean - today's post is for you.

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