Five Things I Don't Worry About Anymore

The first thing that I am not worrying about anymore is I don't want to worry about being perfect anymore.

I Said this last week, the Mormon church is tied to a quest for perfection.

And whether or not people recognize that or not, some do, some don't.

But sometimes when you're in the middle of it, you don't really see it.

But when I was living my young Mormon housewife days in that one stoplight town, I just put so much pressure on myself to be the perfect wife.

the perfect mom and just having everything together.

It wasn't really something that I was comparing myself to other people necessarily.

I really just was doing it because that's the mom that I wanted to be because that is the mom that I wanted.

saw growing up.

My mom just really had it together.

My mom had certain routines that I grew up with.

For example, she would go grocery shopping one day a week.

Every Friday, she would go to the grocery store.

She had this white notepad, the same white notepad, and she made her entire list.

She planned out every meal that she was going to make over the next week, and she made sure every ingredient that she needed was on this list.

And on Fridays, she would drag us to Tom Thumb in Dallas was the grocery store that she shopped at and the one that I eventually worked at.

But she would drag us there and we would do our grocery shopping.

And just one time a week, she just had it together.

She knew exactly what she needed.

She knew everything she was going to cook.

And she just made a game plan and she went forward with it.

The second thing that my mom did routinely was she did all of the laundry on Mondays.

And so we would have to take our laundry down to the laundry room on Sunday night or else the laundry wasn't getting done.

And she would get all the laundry done, fold it, put it back in our basket.

So by the time, you know, after dinner, we had our clean laundry and it was our job to put it away Monday night.