Learn to say NO!

• Don’t take on more than you can handle.  Don’t say yes to baking 50 cookies by tomorrow if you can’t do it.  JUST SAY NO! -  or go buy them.
• Not volunteering for things right now is ok.  Really.  Don’t volunteer for Room Mom if you have two little ones at home.  Wait until the oungest goes to Kindergarten.
• Play to your strengths.
• Don’t volunteer to bake cookies if you can’t cook.  Don’t scrapbook, if you don’t like it.  Don’t offer to sew costumes, if you can’t sew.  I do none of the above, why? Because, I suck at it.
• I take pictures.  That’s what I’m good at.  I’m better than most of the other moms.  Yes, I am tooting my own horn.  I can’t cook, but I can take 200 awesome pictures, edit them and have them posted to a website before most people pull into their driveway.  Yes, I am awesome – but I burn Pop Tarts.