Confessions of an Unbalanced Woman

My mom got me the book Confessions of an Unbalanced Woman by Emily Watts a few years ago for my birthday and I loved it. I found it again recently and Kevin and I have been reading it together. There are a few quotes I want to share from the book because they are so funny and so true! Most of the "she" "woman" and "mom" quotes are interchangeable with "he", "man", and "dad".
Quote 1:
"If you consistently wash fourteen towels in a machine that was designed to hold ten, what will happen? You will break your machine! Maybe not the first time, or the second, but ultimately...I am a fourteen-towel woman in a ten-towel-capacity life. No wonder I feel so out of balance! I have lots to do, and all of it is good and worthwhile and important, but I simply can't do it all at once."
-I love that analogy. Sometimes I feel there is so much on my plate and I have no idea how it will all come together in the end. The rest of the book talks about finding that one thing that brings balance.
Quote 2:
"Burnt toast is actually fairly symbolic of motherhood. If you're the one who burned the toast, you scrape it off and eat it yourself. If they burned it, you eat it because they burned it specially for you. However you look at it, you're going to end up consuming a fair amount of burnt toast-and loving it."
-So true, even the loving it part.
This last quote had me laughing out loud because it was as if it was taken strait from our own home. As far as household chores Kevin only has one-take out the garbage. It is the one chore I refuse to do. I think it goes back to when we had a dog that use to get into our trash cans and I had to clean up the mess. The result is I cannot go near a trash can or dumpster without gagging. Anyway...there was a time I fell into the trap that if I had to ask it didn't count so the trash sometimes got stacked above the brim of the kitchen trash bin. "Because, you see, if he really loved me, he'd do it without having to be asked." (I know ridiculous)
Quote 3:
"I have learned that my husband would do just about anything for me. He runs hard and fast, like a train on a track, and the only problem is that if the track doesn't happen to go past the garbage can, he genuinely doesn't see the trash piling up. Now I say, 'Honey, could you please take out the garbage?' and he says, 'sure,' and he does it. It's a miracle!"
Anyway I thought I'd just share these fun little quotes from the book. I should probably mention that in the end of the book the way to find the balance is to first find, feel, believe, and act on God's love for us. When that happens everything else falls into place.