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Dear diary<br />
make<br />
the most of the unfortunate<br />
situation at hand. I questioned a<br />
lot of what I was doing and how we were<br />
going to move forward out of this mess.<br />
I also questioned where I was in life and<br />
what I was doing, most importantly my<br />
career. However, I always knew I wanted<br />
to be a stay-at-home mom so I could<br />
spend time<br />
raising my children the<br />
way I saw fit, being<br />
there to help them in<br />
times of need and teach them all the basics,<br />
like I had seen done by my mother.<br />
And, let’s be honest, don’t TV, ads and<br />
movies make being a stay-at-home mom<br />
look so easy, cute and glamorous?! What<br />
I didn’t know about being a stay-at-home<br />
mom as the wife of a full-time farmer was<br />
all the hats I’d have to wear: chef, maid,<br />
laundromat, landscaper, accountant, hired<br />
man, farmer, babysitter,<br />
photographer, writer, spouse. Nor did I<br />
realize how difficult completing all these<br />
tasks could be.<br />
Most days I truly sucked at balancing<br />
my time, and my time with the kids got<br />
pushed to the back burner trying to make<br />
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