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"The physical Odyssey of making a baby is really humbling...it's like whoa. When you wake up in the morning and your house is a sort of beautiful mess...but you're with your kids you're thinking, this is the best thing I've ever done with my life." -Drew Barrymore I almost cried in Walmart today.  Not because I was having a stressful moment with my children, but because I was having a stressful moment without them.  Ever since I was young, I knew that when the time came to have children I would give them 100% of my time, my love, my care. Maybe because I was raised by a single mom who worked and went to school full time while trying to date on the weekends. The only thing I can ever remember really wanting as a child was more time with my mom. So, maybe I take it to an extreme when it comes to my own children.  Even still, I have these moments where I realize that anything I once loved doing has slowly been erased from my daily activities.  As I'...