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"I managed to get some sleep last night, and the world is a vastly improved place. It&amp;#039;s amazing how much something we take for granted influences our lives when we don&amp;#039;t get to have it, isn&amp;#039;t it? Anyway, I&amp;#039;m in a far better frame of mind (meaning, I&amp;#039;m not a babbling lunatic like I have been for the past four days) and life is slowly returning to normal. I read back on all your comments yesterday - Wow! Sounds like we have some definite supermoms on the reader list! I&amp;#039;m in awe! Here I am whining about sitting on my couch with a sick kid and that&amp;#039;s a cakewalk compared to what a lot of you have handled. In fact, it&amp;#039;s a cakewalk compared to some of the stuff I&amp;#039;ve handled as well. Perspective is everything, and I have some for sure now. My mind goes back to a time about fifteen years ago, when I was working as a district manager for a retail company. I was at the yearly district meeting and we were all discussing problems in the various stores we supervised and how our managers or their staff were having this difficulty or that one when the newly-hired Chief Operating Officer said &amp;quot;Enough! Do you know why all of you are sitting at this table here today? Do you know why you were promoted to District Manager and you&amp;#039;re not still managing a store? It&amp;#039;s because when push came to shove, you did whatever had to be done. Stop making excuses for managers who won&amp;#039;t do the same.&amp;quot; He had a point. And he was right. Every one of us was the kind of manager who just plain did it. Whatever it was. We did it, or we delegated it so we could do more and we followed up to make sure it was done. Even if it meant late hours, or doing something unpopular or that we didn&amp;#039;t particularly want to do.  And so it goes with us supermoms. How do we do it? We just do? Why do we do it? Because it needs to be done and no one else will do it for us. When will we do it? Every single time we need to. It&amp;#039;s who we are. It&amp;#039;s what we do. And rotten or sleep-deprived as it gets, I can&amp;#039;t imagine not doing it, even for a moment.  So, fellow supermoms, I salute you. Here&amp;#039;s hoping there&amp;#039;s a margarita and beach in all our futures! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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