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about as comfortable as a suit made of poison ivy.
Nice simile
“You need to eat better, sleep more, and stop relying on caffeine to get you through the day.” But the hot coffee smelled and tasted like heaven. “Spoken like a person who doesn’t have three kids under the age of seven.”
Don’t get between my coffee and me!
“I used to be strong like that.” Mr. Jackson sighed. “It’s an insult the way your body turns on you as you get old.”
It most certainly is!
“Life isn’t neat and clean. Family responsibilities aren’t divvied up in perfectly equal slices all the time.
“If children are afraid to stand up for themselves, then your policy protects and enables bullies.”
Mom’s response to principal when both her daughter and the boy who was 2 years older than her 7 year old daughter (who finally retaliated after the teacher wouldn’t take the problem seriously) had a bloodied plug of hair pulled from her head and got a kick to the private parts for his trouble. Both children got suspended for two days. But I see the mom’ point. What WAS the child to do? In the book, she’d told the teacher twice that the boy was picking on her, and the teacher not only didn’t reprimand the boy, but told the girl that “he probably just likes you”. I fear that this type of idiocy is based on true life.
Balancing her career and motherhood felt like she was juggling a raw egg, a live grenade, and a chainsaw. At any moment, something could break, blow up, or slice her to pieces.
That’s just what being a single mom is, and sometimes, that’s how it is even when you’re married.
There’s no need to queue loved ones in order of importance. People all have different needs at different times. I know that you’re used to going it mostly alone, but that’s not the best way.”
“A successful adult relationship requires support and sharing on both sides. It’s not a one-way street where one person does all the giving and the other does all the taking.”
