Mommy Brain is a real thing. The absentmindedness started while I was pregnant. I would forget to buy milk at the grocery store.

In reality, we are just seeing the highlights. We imagine what life must be like for people who appear to have it “all together,” and we fill in the blanks with unrealistic, heightened versions of reality.

Restraint collapse is the idea that they spend so much of the day holding it together that when they get home, they kind of “collapse” into temporary deregulation.

Back to school means back to routine, including actually eating healthy lunches and dinners, which means meal planning for the win.