On a different note, I see you finished your laundry printable you were getting advice on in the FB group as an incentive to subscribe! I’m subscribing just so I can see how it turned out. Did you do it yourself or hire it out?

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Entitled to have Netflix load faster…I was complaining about that this weekend…guilty! Great post and reminder of our own entitlement.

Ha. Exactly!

I agree with you Becca about the expectations! It’s my #1 tip in a post about being happier as a Stay at Home Mom. I really do think it breeds discontentment and unhappiness. When we are unhapppy with less, with unmet “needs” we aren’t happy with what we are given. It’s hard when your friend doesn’t see what she has because she’s chasing after what she doesn’t.

I have a friend who, ever since I’ve known her, has always said, “I’ll be happy when (we move to a new house, we have another child, my husband gets a better job, the kids start school, I lose 10 pounds . . .)” Inevitably that happens and inevitably there is something else to take its place. I wish I could help her see that she is choosing not to be happy, because she is too busy focusing on what she doesn’t have to appreciate what she has. Life isn’t meant to be perfect; in fact we’re promised it won’t be. But that doesn’t mean we can’t be happy, despite the imperfections (and sometimes because of them).