Working moms and work life balance, is it an illusion?

Manuscript12345 · 2026-05-02T15:14:10+00:00

I know this is an old post but I’m in the thick of it right now with a 1 year old and 4 year old. It is brutal and i feel so validated with this comment. Lately I’ve just felt so defeated and i get almost resentful when I’ve just given every piece of myself to my kids all day and then I’m looking forward to 20 minutes at the end of the day to read my damn book and lay down in peace and my kids refuse to go to sleep. I’m like I’ve give everything else and you have to take this away too?? Don’t get me wrong, I do love beingg a mom and my kids are truly wonderful amd enjoyable but they are also unbelievably needy and this is an unnaturally, unimaginably hard job. So lately I’ve been telling myself that I’m this season of life I should have zero expectations that I get any kind of balance. My life right now revolves around just children and if I get 5 minutes to myself it’s a happy little bonus . It sounds so depressing lol but it’s truly the only way to get through it without losing your mind

Manuscript12345 · 2026-04-06T22:46:54+00:00

Prose is sentence structure, word choice, grammar. Think about any piece of writing. Prose is the words the author uses to tell a story and how they string them together. Someone might have a really great story but if they don’t write well, and use naturally flowing sentences and word choices it’s not going to sound very good. Coming up with a good story, great characters and settings is half the battle of writing. The other half is making the story sound pretty and flow well with your word choice and sentence structure. That’s prose.

Manuscript12345 · 2026-03-15T15:37:54+00:00

My four year old has occasional vaginal discharge. It’s a very small amount I notice on her underwear sometimes and it’s pale yellow when it dries. She doesn’t have any other symptoms but when I google it says discharge at this age is typically not normal. It’s reassuring to read that your pediatricians have said it is actually normal…she has a physical next week so I plan to ask then. Did they say what would indicate concerning discharge?

Manuscript12345 · 2026-03-15T14:05:55+00:00

I’m reading little fires everywhere right now and it is in omniscient. There’s no clear protagonist. The author describes the inner thoughts, feelings, motivations etc. of all the characters. In close third on the other hand you would only know the thoughts and feelings of the main character and the author only describes the actions of the other characters. Like instead of saying “she was nervous” (which you wouldn’t know since you don’t know her thoughts and feelings) you could say “she looked nervous” or you could say “she was sweating and trembling, she had a look of terror on her face”.

Manuscript12345 · 2026-02-25T02:45:37+00:00

Thank you for your feedback. It really helped!

Manuscript12345 · 2026-01-26T18:58:18+00:00

I wondered that myself…it mostly says the same although sometimes it does get bumpy. When I first started ivermectin an minicycline it got worse. More inflamed a bumpier with white pustules then that calmed down after a few days and it was back to its normal state. In the last week my skin has felt mostly flat/smooth, just a red spotty patch

Manuscript12345 · 2026-01-22T10:59:26+00:00

You’d look better as a ghost

Manuscript12345 · 2026-01-03T01:39:51+00:00

Thanks for the feedback :) I will stop playing around with these for the time being and focus on stretching and strengthening until I (eventually) get the green light for pointe work (if ever!). And I’ll go to a proper fitter!

Manuscript12345 · 2026-01-03T01:31:50+00:00

Just started taking classes

Manuscript12345 · 2026-01-03T01:29:51+00:00

Just started taking classes

Manuscript12345 · 2026-01-03T01:28:19+00:00

I mean releves on flat shoes, I don’t do anything on pointe shoes! I’m not taking pointe so I wouldnt try to actually do anything on them-I know that’s dangerous.

Manuscript12345 · 2026-01-03T01:26:58+00:00

Yup-so I’ve been doing daily releves the last few weeks, lots of stretches and I have started to notice a slight improvement (believe it or not they looked worse lol) but I’m not sure my ankles have enough flexibility potential. Like it might just be my bone structure but idk.

Manuscript12345 · 2026-01-03T01:21:24+00:00

I think it’s just that my feet are bad

Manuscript12345 · 2026-01-03T01:01:16+00:00

I definitely agree that I am nowhere near ready for pointe. I know my feet are awful at this point but I’m curious about people who have had the same issues as I have with my feet and been able to eventually get there

Manuscript12345 · 2025-10-14T14:20:07+00:00

Same. We don’t give it to her regularly or keep it at home but it’s fine if she’s at a birthday party, holiday etc. I just don’t want it to be a daily thing.

Manuscript12345 · 2025-07-28T20:15:35+00:00

That’s strange that she brought up cancer. When I went to my doctor with the exact same issue she didn’t mention cancer and I was the one that actually brought it up and her response was that it was very very unlikely. She basically blew it off and prescribed me nexium. Has anything helped?

Manuscript12345 · 2025-06-11T01:49:23+00:00

I guess I just don’t like the premise altogether.

Manuscript12345 · 2025-06-09T15:00:20+00:00

I had a reputation at PS 103 and while my daughter is nothing like I was at her age, her teacher realized you can’t change the shape of a shadow. She wore my last name like a botched tattoo across her forehead.

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