Well, since I don't go anywhere or do anything in January, it seemed like a good time to start potty training the kids. I read up on the '3 day potty training method' and am giving that a go. It is impossible to do that with 3 at once and so I decided to start with Dylan. Liam is too headstrong and Evan doesn't care enough. I mean we'll see.... but I felt like Dylan would be the most responsive to praise and he likes to be like the big boys. So - anyway. We are doing not too bad. Today is the beginning of day 2 and we're at about 50% successes. He even woke up dry from his nap yesterday and went on the potty. It's a tonne of work. A TONNE. I'm exhausted by the end of the day. It'll be worth it though. I just can't think about how, once Dylan is doing fairly well and I feel he's really gotten it, I'll only be 1/3 done. I'll have to start from the beginning two more times....
Stay in your lane. Don't look at other people's papers. Those couple of lines jumped out at me as I read Maria Goff's book " Love Lives Here" It reminded me that we can't all live the same life. Comparisons hold us back and discourage us like nothing else. We have fears of being different when we are SUPPOSED to be different. I grew up trying to fit in and not doing a very good job at it. When I was in my teens I thought I'd try a new approach so I started trying to be the opposite of what I was because I thought that is what everyone else wanted me to be. I am chatty and energetic and I tried to be dainty and quiet. I didn't do a very good job of that either. Yikes. Trying to be someone we're not is exhausting and it doesn't work. We seldom fool anyone or achieve the goal we thought we wanted. What we all really want I think, is to connect with one another and to matter. As an adult I have had goals and held them up against other p...
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