Do you ever?

• Do you ever feel like life is caving in on you, for no particular reason but just generally?
• Have you ever broken down and cried hysterically, for no apparant reason, not just once in a week but twice?
• Do you ever look at other women and wonder what it is they are doing right to be so pulled together and on top of things (and thus what you are doing wrong?)
• Do you ever live in that awkward coexisting reality where you love being a mother but feel smothered by the responsibilities of mothering?
• Have you ever misplaced your keys and been on the verge of tears because your family is waiting in the car and your keys are lost and you haven't sat down even once in the day and you don't know if you can do one more thing, let alone remember where several small pieces of metal have lost themselves?
• Have you ever looked at your life and understood just how amazingly blessed you are, but you still feel ovewhelmed at the things you need to do?

Obviously, I have never felt that way. But if I ever had, this quote from one of my favorite authors (Shannon Hale) that I read on her blog (http://oinks.squeetus.com/) would have brought a little tear to my eye and made me feel just a bit better:

How do I do it all, people often ask. Let me tell you how: today I had my first dental x-rays in probably seven years. About half the meat I buy I end up throwing out because it goes bad before I get a chance to cook it. (Freeze it, you say? Then I'll never defrost it and throw it out after it gets freezer burn.) No one can do it all! I say, we all are capable of doing, say, three things well: I'm one heck of a mother and wife, and I write books. The end.