Having It All
From Chicken Soup for the Soul: Be You
By Kaitlyn Jain

The secret to having it all is realizing you already do.
~Author Unknown

“Do you work?” people ask when I meet them at parties. They’re not the kinds of parties where I can’t see across the room over the crush of bodies. The parties I attend these days may be just as hard to get around, and I still worry about getting a sticky drink spilled on me, but now they’re at places like Bounce-Til-You’re-Sick or Crazy-Kids in the middle of a Saturday afternoon. They’re not quite as fun and exciting as those I attended ten years ago when I dressed in heels and could sleep in the next day without worrying about being woken up by a kid jumping on my belly before sunrise.

I’m a woman with four children, all under the age of eight. People assume I must not be able to work. (Keep reading)