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Being a Mom is hard!  Watching someone else be an "AMAZING" Mom on television makes being a Mom even HARDER! I love Michelle Duggar but dang, she made me feel like an absolute failure when it came to my own mothering skills.  Where Michelle D. is soft spoken, I am LOUD!  Where Michelle D. seems to have everything in control, my life can be total and absolute chaos! And I only have 4 children...and there are time I want to scream and run away...yes, I said it.  I am not a perfect Mom.  No part of my parenting would probably earn an award in the Mommy Olympics.  I have good days, I have bad days, I have REALLY bad days!  But I do love my kids!  With every last ounce of my being.  But what does that mean? That means I have days where the children have bickered and fought and taken each other's stuff and bickered...yeah and I finally LOSE IT after asking them a million times to CUT IT OUT!  Yes, you guessed it...I yell!  I mean ...

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Tori and I sat down and watched Vegucated last night.  It was my second time watching, Tori's first.  After watching this movie, its hard not to react to the horrific treatment of animals in the large companies and slaughterhouses. Our hearts were broken and that made us decide to make a big decision. Tori and I will be going Vegan for 6 weeks, starting today.  This is not going to be easy as we are both meat eaters.  We are full on carnivores!  We aren't just doing this because of the atrocious treatment of the animals but also because of the way we want our bodies to feel and look.  We'll be sharing with you a weekly vlog on how it's going for us starting next Saturday.  Be on the watch for it! I also want to share some recipes.  It will be a little interesting for us because I'm terribly allergic to soy.  There will be no soy milk coming into our house.  But good news is, I love almond milk.  I have to remember that Vegan ...