A Mom's Year

Have you seen the “Social Media Explained” white board? It made me laugh, and then I realized it actually helps! What was most interesting, though, was reading about how the team at Three Ships Media came up with this idea in the first place and their thoughts on what it feels like to go viral.

Do you use any or all of these social media tools? I dabble in a few, but that’s about it. (Foursquare? Don’t even know what that is.)

On a different note, I’m finally sitting down to watch this week’s episode of Downton Abbey. If I can stay awake. I spent the day subbing, which I love, but it wears me out. Teachers are rock stars.

A while back I wrote about Mud-Mind, a concept that compares the mind to a jar full of water and dirt that, when shaken, gets filled with mud. That muddy mess represents your negative thinking, which gets muddier and muddier the more you “shake” the jar (i.e., rant, vent, argue, moan and groan). But if you stop shaking the jar, the dirt settles to the bottom and the water—your thoughts—once again become crystal clear.

I’m not exaggerating when I say that the concept of Mud-Mind, which I learned about from a friend who’s a family therapist, is one of the strongest tools in our marital kit. We still get mad and shake our jars at each other, but at the end of the day neither of us believes anything the other says when he or she’s in Mud-Mind. And we do try to keep our mouths shut when we know we’re in Mud-Mind. It’s much harder for me than Tim, let me tell you.

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