You don’t have to be mad, overwhelmed, or stressed, or annoyed, or frustrated unless you want to. What feeling do you want to create today?

I used to think that being overwhelmed was just the way things had to be, especially when you have a lot of kids and homeschool them. There was no other option. I did alternate between stress and giving up as well, but basically most of my time was spent knowing that inevitably I would fail, so I worried about it. I stressed, I analyzed, I tried to avoid it, I tried to be perfect, and I tried to keep the impending disaster from ever arriving. It was exhausting. Then I learned