Hello All Great House Wives !

1. BE PATIENT WITH YOURSELF FIRST I am a perfectionist by nature, which means I am really, really hard on myself. Whenever something doesn’t go exactly as planned, I blame myself and inevitably become grumpy and irritable with anyone within my immediate vicinity. But once I started to cut myself a little slack and accept the fact that I simply cannot control everything that happens in the world, it felt as though a huge weight had been lifted off my shoulders. And when I learned to stop taking things that are out of my control personally, I found I was much better at taking things in stride. 2. TAKE SOME QUIET TIME When my daughter stopped napping at the age of 2, I started to enforce an hour of quiet time after lunch each day. I found it made a world of difference in allowing her to take a breather before tackling whatever we had planned for the rest of the day, and I typically used the time to answer emails, throw in a load of laundry, scrub t...