As I relax a bit this evening and read blogs and catch up with friends on Twitter, Facebook & E-mail, the thought comes to me…  Seriously… How do they have time for all of that?  Then I realize… Once again… that I am looking at MANY different people, in MANY different circumstances and trying to put them all into that cookie cutter mold of the “perfect” mom.  C’mon… don’t tell me you don’t do that sometimes too. 

I devour a post about a mom editing each photo she publishes because they just aren’t blog worthy until they have been “tweeked” in photoshop. I am taking in all the instructions, bookmarking the post, thinking this must be something I should be doing… and then it hits me…  Yeah… Don’t have time for that – you get what you get – straight out of the camera on my family blog that boasts a picture a day.  (I thought that was pretty good in and of itself! No way I have an extra 30 min. to make the photo look perfect!)

I chat with another homeschooling mom about the field trips they have planned this spring, what elaborate science experiment they should try next and I think… Wow, we’re lucky to just get through the bare bones each day. 

I chat with a friend about all the new business projects she has going and how great everything is going.  Meanwhile, I think.. I am still with the same ol’ projects and they are not moving forward fast at all… downright slow actually…

I read a very popular blog (we’re talking sometimes 2-3 posts a day) about a mommy expecting baby #5 (and her kids are all much closer in age than mine) and I think Wow, I wish I had time (& inspiration) to blog like that…

We do the best we can… and that is just going to have to be good enough.  The issue comes in trying to accept that we have done our best. 

C-

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