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Good enough
I will outsource cleaning and ironing but never piano lessons and ballet, and that’s Good Enough for me.
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No more instant mashed potatoes!
I’m nowhere close to being a great cook, but I’ve found enough things that I can handle preparing well so that we can enjoy home-cooked dinners as a family.
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Fashion Designer
At age 25 I left a lucrative 4 year old career as a fashion designer to become a mom. The next 30 years have been a combination of changing diapers, freelance work, teaching, running kids to after...
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Work-from-home mom who changes roles multiple times a day
12 years ago, just before the birth of my first child, I left an upworldy mobile career trajectory to become a part-time-work-from-home mom. When my kids were babies and toddlers, balancing work,...
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Postpartum depression doesn’t make me a bad mom
When I was pregnant, I had so many people tell me I was going to be a great mom. Well, duh, I thought. Of course I will. I should perhaps have paid attention to the fact that none of those people were...
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Embrace small accomplishments
i can’t do it all I’ve realized. But I celebrate what I can do, right now, in this moment in my life, however small, and that’s good enough for me!
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Halloween
My new perfect is convincing my kids to be the Imagination Movers for Halloween, because we already have those costumes and therefore I don’t have to hand-sew my own like a “good mother” (i.e. my...
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Rocking the round
I’m good enough because I won’t be any smarter, friendlier or funnier at 115 than I am at 150!
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my new perfect
I have accepted that I am not particularly happy being at home with my kids, but I still feel like it’s the right thing for my family, and being honest about that is important.
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Communications Consultant
I’m good enough because I have finally realized that I can do just about anything that I want to. Moving, plumbing, landscaping, painting, carpentry, interior design, accounting, investing,...
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