Meditation for Mommies

If you are the Mama of a toddler, you do everything fast.

Here's your "how to" for a lakeside picnic with a one-year-old.

Stuff food, drink, diapers, blanket into your purse because you've given up on the heavy diaper bag after a year.

Grab squirming, pushing nap time baby and schlep it to the closest sort of scenic spot near the lake.

With one hand holding baby, attempt to spread blanket.

Sit and nurse baby while you cram salad down your gullet. This buys you 5 minutes.

Try to absorb the blue sky and summer breeze.

Spend 3 more minutes trying to tempt toddler to stay near blanket, bribing him with Cheez-its while you eat the most filling remnants of salad.

Give up and chase toddler, repeatedly rescuing him from diving into lake.

Give up and wrestle a diaper change. Ignore the irritated glares of other picnic-ers who don't have sympathy for the mommy Olympics you're competing in.

Take a deep breath. That's all you, Mamas!

Heft baby onto your hip and gracelessly grab at your scattered possessions and lumber back to the car.

Was that 15 minutes? That constitutes your Relaxation for the day.

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