<a href="http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/viewer.jpeg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-4519 alignleft" alt="viewer" src="http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/viewer-300x300.jpeg" width="300" height="300" /></a>When I called my very good friend the other day to wish her a happy birthday, I felt like an awful person because I've been absolutely terrible about staying in touch. After wishing her the happiest of days, and for all her wishes to come true (I truly hope they do!) I started to apologize for being such a horrible friend and dropping the ball, etc... when she interrupted me.

"Just tell me one thing," she wanted to know, "how do you do it all?"

How do I do it all?

ME?

"You have three kids and a husband who travels and a job and you volunteer at both schools and I don't know how you do it..."

I, um, eh...

I confessed that I don't do it all, and then tried to, in the five minutes we had before my friend had to get off the phone because her kids were screaming in the background because they wanted cake (don't blame them), explain as non-rambly and succintly as