It's not a bad thing to become my Mom. She's a pretty cool lady. Ingenius, resourceful and can cook circles around anyone. When I talk about how I' have difficulty doing something, she typically, quite matter-of-factly, will ask me why I'm not doing it "X" way which is, of course, the most easy, logical way to do it, and only someone who has put a little thought into it would have come to the same conclusion.
Anyway, my mom gets involved in a lot. And she volunteers A LOT. So much so that I bought her this:
http://www.catchingfireflies.com/products/stop-me-before-I...-magnet.html
(By the way, that's a GREAT price for the magnet, and no, I don't get any commission if you buy it. I just love my local stores!)
But I have that volunteering bug, too. And right now I'm being overwhelmed by it. For some reason, my mouth seems to engage and my hand goes up when I see trouble - oh, I can do it! I'll help! And then I pile up too much on my plate, and then I get stressed, and then I freak out, and then I'm the mess I see before me. (I'm working toward critical mass at the moment!)
For Mom, it seems that no matter how much she's got going on, she doesn't seem stressed. Maybe she is, and she's just really good at dealing with it - or hiding it. I don't know. I have yet to develop that ability. Maybe it happens at 45?
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