Motherhood Martyrs Meeting One: Collard greens and ‘Me Time’
Peek at any motherhood martyr’s calendar and you’ll see time scheduled for everything and everyone else except her. There will be time scheduled for grocery shopping, soccer games, work, meetings, car pools, dry cleaning, birthday parties, baby showers, etc. A motherhood martyr looks at a packed calendar and thinks, “With all the things I have to do, I don’t have time for ‘me time.’ ” But what we should be thinking is, “With all the things I have to do, I cannot afford to not have ‘me time.’ ”
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