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With a new year, come thoughts of the now 33yrs(yikes) behind me...being a stay at home mom with little ones still, it is few and far between when I have the chance to have a semi-thoughtful thought....so, here it goes: in my attempt to "master" the stay at home thing....I have learned a few things here and there that I didn't know going into it (which wasn't hard b/c I didn't have ANY homemaking skills when I started)
5.when you have many plates of food that need cutting up before serving...don't waste your time with a knife and fork, whip out a giant pizza cutter and you have little cut up portions of food in seconds instead of mintues.....
4.When ever things are going badly (or badly going)try re-directing, otherwise know as CHANGING the SUBJECT (it works well with husbands too!) If you can perfect this skill, you can minimize melt-downs, tantrums, fighting, you name it by at least 25-30%....did I mention it works well with husbands too!!
3.Home-made chocolate chip cookies is the cure all for bad days, sad days, don't know what we're going to do today days....the perfect reward for getting it all done, to making yourself feel better when you get absolutly NOTHING done...
2. It is ABSOLUTELY true, : a moment on the lips=months and months on the hips (I think there is a correlation between #2 and #3)
1. Well, I thought I could come up with 5, but sadly at the moment, I can only come up with four, and even more sadly, two of them had to do with chocolate chip cookies....sad.....very sad....