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So we stayed inside waiting for the rain, watching movies, eating popcorn and sugar snap peas, listening to Bill Harley, doing laundry, and for a brief special moment, it was perfection.\u00a0 Then the witching hour hit and I decided that these children needed to get outside and out from under me and if it rains while we\u2019re out\u2014 oh well! Summer is for running in the rain barefoot and brave, anyway.\u00a0 So we went to the store where I showed T.J.<\/a> how to read the ingredients and find the dyes, sugars, and preservatives he should avoid.\u00a0 Then I bought a pack of six organic, vegan ice cream sandwiches that cost more than my venti latte at Starbucks and we stepped back into the soft rain to walk home.\u00a0 I gave the babies their ice cream and let then run ahead with their flip flop slapping the sidewalk.\u00a0 When we got home,\u00a0 I made red beans and rice because nothing warms the body like spicy, comfort food from the Big Easy.\u00a0 And I sat down to write you an apology for not having Part Two up yet, but I don\u2019t know that \u201cI\u2019m sorry\u201d is the right sentiment.\u00a0 Because today, I lived the number one rule of \u201cDo You, Mama!\u201d\u00a0 and it\u2019s to embrace presence over perfection. Shauna Niequest has a whole chapter on this in \u201cBread and Wine\u201d and it was both confirming and convicting. We try so hard to be perfect fill-in-the-blank, but our families and friends and God only ask us to be present.<\/em><\/p>\n

Today, we were supposed to go to the park and I\u2019d write five tips to be true to yourself \u2014and that will come lovelies, I promise\u2014 but in order for me to be the best mom I could be in today, I had to be present and put aside the dream of a perfect mom who balances babies and blogging all on one hip.\u00a0 That perfect woman is the fearsome and fake fantasy me.\u00a0 I choose the real, present, flawed, but fun me.<\/p>\n

I was present today, not perfect and I\u2019m pretty proud of myself. Being present not perfect is the truest, clearest, most authentic approach a mom can have.\u00a0 So, I\u2019m going to put up \u201cPart Two\u201d soon, hopefully it\u2019ll be live tomorrow afternoon because the kids have a library program and I\u2019ll get a full two hours of quiet to write.\u00a0 Oh glory be!<\/p>\n

Until then, enjoy this Facebook status on our way to the store in the rain:<\/p>\n

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Do You, Mamas\u2013 presently, not perfectly!\u00a0 Do You,<\/p>\n

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