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"Felicity Huffman is not unlike her Desperate Housewives alter-ego Lynette Scavo: As a working mother-of-two, Huffman often feels as if she&amp;apos;s &amp;quot;drowning in motherhood.&amp;quot;\r\n&amp;quot;When I am home I want to be away. When I am away I want to be home,&amp;quot; Huffman, 49, writes in her iVillage blog. &amp;quot;I am no longer the person I was before having children, but not quite comfortable with whom I have become.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nThe actress has two daughters (Sophia, 11, and Georgia, 9) with husband of nearly 15 years William H. Macy, 61. Describing herself as an &amp;quot;anxious mother,&amp;quot; Huffman recalls a turning point in her life as a parent.\r\n&amp;quot;One Saturday, when my girls were about 3 and 4, we were pulling out of the driveway on our way to the Natural History Museum. I had worked a long week -- lots of 15 hour days -- and finally gotten to sleep by 1 a.m., and then woke up at 6 a.m. with the kids.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nMacy decided to stay home because he &amp;quot;had been working hard&amp;quot; and need to relax, much to his daughters&amp;apos; chagrin. &amp;quot;&amp;apos;Papa gets &amp;apos;Papa time&amp;apos; and we get &amp;apos;The Grump,&amp;apos;&amp;quot; Huffman recalls one of her daughters saying.\r\n&amp;quot;After all my effort and exhaustion and sacrificing, she wasn&amp;apos;t going to remember the museum or the snack or the wonderful adventure. She was just going to remember that she was on an outing with &amp;apos;The Grump.&amp;apos; Something snapped and I knew what I was doing wasn&amp;apos;t working.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nThe ABC star phoned one of her sisters that night &amp;quot;sobbing so hard I could barely talk.&amp;quot; Huffman later realized that &amp;quot;any damage I would inflict by trying to be a &amp;apos;good mother&amp;apos; far, far outweighed any damage I would do by just being myself.&amp;quot;\r\n&amp;quot;Maybe good mothers can pretend to be Poobah for two hours and go on endless trips to museums and parks. But I can read out loud for hours, I can build forts all afternoon, I can really listen when things go wrong and I am great when the flu hits,&amp;quot; Huffman writes in her iVillage blog. &amp;quot;I now try and accept my limits.&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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