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"Do you know what exhausts us more than lack of sleep? Stress. Our worrying. Our focus on what might be wrong.  Our lack of laughter. Our lack of energy.  Our lack of exercise to blow off anxiety and boost that energy. The joy deprivation is worse than the sleep deprivation, hands down. We don't feel the physical effects of it the way we do when we've been woken up every hour all night. But the extra weight we carry is something we don't even realize we've taken on and assumed like excess baggage." -- Lu Hanessian

If you're like most parents, you're carrying some excess stress baggage that's weighing you down.  Do you need it?  Will it really help make things better?  Ready to move on?  Here's how.

1. Acknowledge what's stressing you, do one positive thing to address it, and let that stress go for today.

2. Find a way to boost your energy this evening.  Put on some great music and dance with your kids for ten minutes. Play a game of tag with your kids for ten minutes. Soak in the bath by yourself for ten minutes.

3. Make sure you find lots of reasons to laugh with your family.
 
May your evening be filled with miracles, large and small.