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“Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince

23 Sunday Feb 2014

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J’adore Le Petit Prince! What wisdom contained in that book! I saw this quote today and it was exactly what I needed. You see, I’ve been impatient lately with my kids. Truth be told, I’m impatient a lot. “Hi, my name is Maeve and I’m impatient with my kids.” Sort of feels like that kind of admission, you know?

It is definitely one of my “challenges” in life right now. I am a single mother of one teenaged girl and one tween boy with a lot on my plate like most of us, and impatience get the best of me more than I care to admit.

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