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<\/p>Recently, a first time mom-friend of mines was expressing that her one year old was yelling at the top of her lungs \u201cfor fun\u201d and would laugh as soon as she came in the room. When I assured her that it was normal\/nothing to worry about, she wondered aloud why there wasn\u2019t a book that let you know things like that happened. Honestly, it would be impossible for any one book to cover everything that each kid will do, because every kid is so unique.\n

That made me think about the things from my week that I have to remind myself is normal\/okay\u2026<\/p>\n

-It\u2019s normal\/okay that Michael has been sick (and got the rest of the family sick!) for the last five days. Since he was sick, I stopped by Michael\u2019s school on Friday to pick up his homework for the weekend. Both his teacher and the school director said that I should expect for him to be sick a lot this first year of being in a group setting of kids. His teacher said she was sick all the time the first year that she taught. She gave me a couple of good practicals \u2013 wash his hands a lot; teach him not to get so close to the other kids so that he\u2019s not breathing in their germs and get the flu shot. I think that the first two tips are easier for adults to do than kids though\u2026I don\u2019t want Michael to become obsessive about germs.<\/p>\n

-It\u2019s normal\/okay that my kids have better manners than I do at times. That means that my husband and I are raising them right! What brought this to mind is that we were celebrating my mother-in-law\u2019s birthday on Saturday. When it was time for dessert, all of us adults were just going to cut the cake and eat it. However, we hear this little voice (Michael\u2019s) behind us starting to sing\u2026\u201dHappy Birthday to You, Happy Birthday to You\u2026\u201d Of course, we all looked at each other and hurriedly joined in the song. Later, on the way home, I sneezed and Sean immediately said \u201cBless You\u201d. I looked over at my husband who was driving and he just shook his head\u2026Sean beats us both to the \u201cbless you\u201d many times!<\/p>\n

-It\u2019s okay that my husband (usually) has a more sober estimate of how things will work out than I do. For instance, I\u2019m working on my holiday toy guide. In my mind, I was under the delusion that I would let my sons test some of the samples and then give them away or put them away until Christmas. My husband was like, \u201cYeah, right. You know that you\u2019re the soft touch.\u201d Well yesterday, I received the Hulk Smash hands<\/a>. Even before I finished opening the box, Michael was jumping up and down yelling \u201cHulk Smash!\u201d while Sean kept saying \u201cWow\u201d. They both then proceeded to try to \u201cHulk Smash\u201d\/attack me with the hands. Very cute! There\u2019s no way that I\u2019m getting that toy back\u2026<\/p>\n

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Overall, what I\u2019ve learned\/am constantly learning is that in the grand scheme of things, most day to day things are normal\/okay. (To keep it all in perspective, I\u2019m just grateful that we weren\u2019t in the middle of a hurricane\/a Wall Street crisis\/ etc\u2026)<\/p>\n

(To see what other moms around the web are \u201ctackling\u201d today visit Tackle it Tuesday<\/em><\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"