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Do childless people "have it all"?

 What happens when having it all means not having children?

This is the question asked by Lauren Sandler in her Time Magazine cover story “The Childfree Life.”

“Having it all” is a phrase that haunts parents – particularly mothers – everywhere. Balancing the demands of family life and a career in order to walk the high wire act of personal fulfillment can seem like an impossible task.

Well, y’all, I’ve got bad news. Stop trying to walk that tightrope because it turns out we shouldn’t have joined the circus to begin with.

Week in the Life 2013: August 6

Yesterday, we had friends over to play and had our very first tea party. It was a huge success with Batman and Captain American and Spiderman being invited along. Amos took an almost four hour nap so there was lots of reading and relaxing the second half of the day. Mimi came over for dinner and I spent the rest of my evening watching the rest of Orange is the New Black.  

Week in the Life 2013: August 5

Yesterday was a lazy day. Part of the reason I picked this week was I knew we had no commitments - no places to be. With Griffin starting 5 day a week preschool next week, I'm feeling a little sad about the loss of lazy days spent in our pajamas. I stayed in my pjs until about 4 and there was lots of game playing, iPad playing, and general lazing about. It was awesome.

Yesterday is also the day Griffin learned to photo bomb.  So there's that.