Recently, I made the decision to leave my babies with their Dad for a weekend. I was fully sponsored to attend an amazing conference, and thought that I couldn't "pass up the opportunity". I've also been told repeatably, and consequently believed, that I "deserved a break". In hindsight, I have learned that once you become a mother, there is no such thing as a "break". At least for me personally, at this particular point in my life, there is always a part of me that remains a mother, regardless of where I may be. Up to that weekend, the only other time I had left Alina overnight was to give … [Read more...]