Momming Is Hard

Yesterday my parents (Gigi and Dude to Molly and Cooper), gave Molly $2 to spend at Dollar Tree (her favorite store). She couldn't WAIT to spend it and talked nonstop about how excited she was to look for My Little Pony stuff. She started putting some things together like... "Hey mommy... what happens if I have THREE dollars?" "Hey mommy...what happens if I have like TWENNY dollars?" "...Do YOU have twenny dollars?" She catches on quickly, this one. After she realized more money would buy her more STUFF, our trip to Dollar Tree became even more urgent. And the incessant line of questioning quickly wore on me so I said, "If you go get in bed and rest reaaalllly good, I'll give you one more dollar to spend and then you can get THREE things at the store when you wake up tomorrow." That did the trick. "Goodnight, mommy!" The next morning I gave her a dollar in change because that's all I had which meant a mi...

1. Your family and friends are more important than this article. If you are reading this at the expense of spending time with your significant other or friend, stop reading and come back later. Put down your phone, take a deep breath, and spend intentional time with the people sitting in the same room as you. This applies to anything we might think we need to be doing online - checking emails, texting someone back, sharing a funny video, etc. If it makes the person you're with feel less valued, you can usually find another time to do what you think you need to do on your phone. 2. You don't need any more useless knowledge, especially if it's presented in an enumerated list (like this one, ironically...and intentionally).  It seems like every article you see being passed around has those 5, 10, 15, or (like I saw on a headline today...)  47  "magical" things that unlock the secret to happiness, weight loss, marriage, motherhood, and the list goes on ...