Comments on: Family and work: how do you juggle it all? http://www.milehighmamas.com/2009/09/29/family-and-work-how-do-you-juggle-it-all/ Denver parenting, with altitude Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:29:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Heather http://www.milehighmamas.com/2009/09/29/family-and-work-how-do-you-juggle-it-all/#comment-7499 Heather Sun, 18 Oct 2009 07:18:56 +0000 http://www.milehighmamas.com/?p=6356#comment-7499 Janalee, You've eloquently stated the yo-yo feelings that moms who work at mothering and also work at something "bigger than themselves" feel. Thank you for articulating it so clearly. Beckie's honesty about her conflictedness is refreshing. That frustrating struggle of always being in your head can be exhausting. A funny wise woman once said it's like tuning it to KFKD radio. Another said, "Stop letting other people move the furniture around in your brain." My own personal rendition is that my mind is in the spin cycle. Conflicted is the new mommy normal. Janalee,
You’ve eloquently stated the yo-yo feelings that moms who work at mothering and also work at something “bigger than themselves” feel. Thank you for articulating it so clearly.

Beckie’s honesty about her conflictedness is refreshing. That frustrating struggle of always being in your head can be exhausting. A funny wise woman once said it’s like tuning it to KFKD radio. Another said, “Stop letting other people move the furniture around in your brain.” My own personal rendition is that my mind is in the spin cycle.

Conflicted is the new mommy normal.

]]> By: Beckie http://www.milehighmamas.com/2009/09/29/family-and-work-how-do-you-juggle-it-all/#comment-7498 Beckie Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:14:57 +0000 http://www.milehighmamas.com/?p=6356#comment-7498 I found your article to be so interesting. It is so good to hear that other moms feel the same way when managing a business and raising children. I feel our generation of moms is so different from my mom's generation (I'm 41). It seems as though my mom and especially my mother-in-law who raised 5 children, were perfectly ok with raising the kids, cleaning the house, making dinner. I don't know for some reason I feel like I want to do so much more than cook and clean and sometimes I feel guilty and I should be at peace with just raising my children, cleaning and cooking. I am so conflicted with myself at times. I know I am capable of so much more. I think it stems from the ideas that were planted in me at a young age, that I will go to college and learn more, do more....yet when my kids where born I did not want to leave them and I wanted to be here at the house for my kids, oh I always tell myself when the kids are both in elementary school I can get so much more done....one day, one day!ahhh the confliction! I found your article to be so interesting. It is so good to hear that other moms feel the same way when managing a business and raising children. I feel our generation of moms is so different from my mom’s generation (I’m 41). It seems as though my mom and especially my mother-in-law who raised 5 children, were perfectly ok with raising the kids, cleaning the house, making dinner. I don’t know for some reason I feel like I want to do so much more than cook and clean and sometimes I feel guilty and I should be at peace with just raising my children, cleaning and cooking. I am so conflicted with myself at times. I know I am capable of so much more. I think it stems from the ideas that were planted in me at a young age, that I will go to college and learn more, do more….yet when my kids where born I did not want to leave them and I wanted to be here at the house for my kids, oh I always tell myself when the kids are both in elementary school I can get so much more done….one day, one day!ahhh the confliction!

]]> By: JoAnn http://www.milehighmamas.com/2009/09/29/family-and-work-how-do-you-juggle-it-all/#comment-7497 JoAnn Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:21:22 +0000 http://www.milehighmamas.com/?p=6356#comment-7497 I think, as mothers and women, we can have it all. Of course, the definition of "all" is always changing, isn't it? :) I once heard that the secret to juggling everything was realizing that some of the balls in the air were glass and others rubber. The rubber once bounce when dropped. The glass ones don't. It's okay to let the rubber ones fall every now and then as long as you catch the glass ones. :) I'm glad to read the next installment in your saga! Thank you for sharing! I think, as mothers and women, we can have it all. Of course, the definition of “all” is always changing, isn’t it? :)

I once heard that the secret to juggling everything was realizing that some of the balls in the air were glass and others rubber. The rubber once bounce when dropped. The glass ones don’t. It’s okay to let the rubber ones fall every now and then as long as you catch the glass ones. :)

I’m glad to read the next installment in your saga! Thank you for sharing!

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