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BACK IN MY 20s, WHEN I WAS STILL TRYING TO FIGURE OUT how to do it all--the perfect mommy/good wife/successful career woman/happy homemaker thing--I happened to be seated next to a kindly older gentleman at a dinner party. In the course of small talk, he mentioned that he came from a family with II children. At the time, I had one toddler and was hanging on by my fingernails.
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"How, how, how," I practically cried, "did your mother do it?"
The man's eyes crinkled up; he'd heard the question before.
"Well, my dear, those were simpler days," he said gently. "After my mother finished the breakfast dishes, she started ...