When I became a mother I really wanted to do it right. I read so many books about pregnancy, labor, healthy sleep, breastfeeding, child training. Let me share a secret with you that took me a long time to learn: perfection is impossible. Don't aim for it! Don't do it. Don't even think about trying..... Really. We all want to do this motherhood gig well but perfectionism is a trap because perfection is impossible to define let alone to obtain. Aiming at perfection will make you lose your peace. Here is the crazy thing! Perfection looks nothing like peace but peace looks a whole lot like perfection. I find that when my focus is on perfection: having a perfectly clean house, perfectly behaved children, or a perfect physique, I obtain none of those things. Instead I turn into a mean mommy and a grumpy wife. But when I focus on peace: make manageable goals for cleaning, take time to engage my children's hearts, have realistic and healthy expectations for physical fitness, an...