TAKE CARE OF YOU!

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A root canal is calling. Joy to the world!
It's my own doing for dissing the pain. I felt a little sensitivity a couple of weeks ago-but ignored the warning, while zeroing in on everyone else's needs. My usual line of defense-- which eventually puts me on the offense...fighting an infection or feeling or frustration.

That's why it's important to take care of numero uno. If you don't take care of yourself the first time, you'll have to work twice as hard at it the second, third or fourth go round. You can't avoid you-no matter how hard you try. Especially when there's a big brew of boys or girls or both-counting on you to be there-for them when they need you the most. So take care of yourself--It's the one lesson I think I have begun to ace-and then wham-decay sets in, the nerves explode and the poisonous pain pours through the head searing our sanity and sapping all of our strength.

A little TLC for oneself-is a whole lot better than trying to put humpty dumpty back together again...The cracked edges never seem to line up perfectly or as prettily as before.

But it's never too late to take care of you--because you are wonderfully designed and worth every single, solitary second of pampering, personal time and painstaking
pronouncement that you "need" something!

Sometimes I think moms have an allergy to their own needs...that is self inflicted and clearly comes from a book of bum wraps...My friend, reinforced that theory today...She goes to therapy for back pain...painful back pain...But supermom that she is-today- her first order of business-was vacuuming her three children's bedrooms before she crawled on over to her own...Need I say more?! Luckily-for her-out of nowhere--the voice of reason that goes into hibernation-holding reasonably sensible women hostage to themselves--woke up screaming-no-not no-____no!

Tonight-I imagine-she's resting peacefully-all in one piece.
Take care of you! You're the best you've got!

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