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This poem came through my feed today and I thought you all might enjoy it.  Here's the start and a link.

 

I am tired, defeated,

a nightgown-clad Sisyphus

making waffles and eggs,

...

 

 

- See more at: http://www.literarymama.com/poetry/archives/2016/03/sisyphusian-condition.html#sthash.AaviTVnb.dpuf

 

This is why we want to teach the kids the classics.  So they can identify the timeless nature of our human struggles. ;)

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I don't own a single pair of yoga pants and am always dressed when making breakfast for everyone, but I *feel* that poem some days, it's true.

 

Word to all the exhausted mothers, pushing rocks uphill or just a spatula. Ugh.

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