I am a NICE shark, not a mindless eating machine.

[Meredith]

It all goes back to our own set of circumstances, doesn't it? And the concept that anything becomes manageable when it is your way of life.

There are people who will give me this look of pity and say something to the tune of ‘how do you hold it together? You work so many hours and with no husband at home to help with your toddler…” How do I do it? One blasted day at a time, thank you - the same way YOU would do it! You don’t crumble up and die when the bad stuff hits…at least not forever! You do it because doing it is the only choice you’ve got. There is no difficulty without blessing…

That wasn’t supposed to come across sounding so much like venting! I was just trying to say that ‘overwhelming’ is always more so to the outside world. When it is your way of life, there are days when you feel overwhelmed but nothing like what it looks like from the outside. We all know that through DBing…it isn’t a way of life we would have chosen had we been given the option. But we can all agree that there are definite blessings to the crappy circumstances, right?

I think that is also where the frustration with our spouses comes in. Sometimes it really feels like they can pick and choose which parts of reality they want to be theirs and the rest are just left to fall and wait for us to pick them up. I know that is why I was so angry with Sting on Sunday…I saw my sitch from the outside and rather lost it!