Felicity Huffman Quotes

I have 3 kids and a cat and a busy, noisy house. I get more time to relax when I'm working.

You know how exasperated you can be when you're the mother of five young boys.

I'm my happiest when I'm really busy. I love feeling like I need one more hour of sleep, or when I'm running around frazzled!

I'm losing friendships over forgetting to get back to people. But you can't keep up with everything. I've got a 13-year-old, a nine-year-old and a baby.

I work, and I'm a full-time mom, and it's hard for me to sit down and relax because it's like, 'Crap, there's something I'm forgetting.'

When you're juggling children, a marriage and a couple of jobs, something has to give - and, for me, it's living in a perfectly tidy home.

I find I'm the sort of harried working mother who has difficulty scheduling in a bit of rest amid the Ptolemaically complicated interlocking gears of professional and personal life.

When you have two busy kids running around the house, returning e-mails is a task, let alone surfing the web.

It's hard to keep the romance going sometimes. Because you have a job. And you have children. And you have a house and a dog. And something leaks in the basement, and somebody has to take the dog to the vet... you're exhausted.

My life is extremely full and wretchedly busy, and I feel that while my life drains energy from my work, my work in turn drains energy from my life. The result is, I am always playing catch-up spiritually. That is my thorn.

With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.

I have twin six-year-old boys. Have no mojo. The closest thing to a mojo I have is five minutes of peace.

When I'm at work, I'm remembering what I forgot to do for the kids, and when I'm with the kids, I'm remembering what I forgot to do at work.

It definitely gets challenging at times. I travel a lot more now, and its never easy having to leave the kids, even if its for a few days.

To have kids and not be there every night is tough.

As a working mum, it's really hard to find time in the day to just relax and take a break. I am constantly on the go.

I, for one, am pretty exhausted since I started blogging almost a year ago. But I am blaming that on my two sons, aged 3 and 6, whose perpetual-motion-machine energy is hard to keep up with at my advanced age.

The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.

City life is stressful. Everybody is running around like crazy, stuck in traffic jams trying to make meetings, trying to make ends meet, trying to meet deadlines, trying to get kids to and from activities. There aren't enough hours in the day for all this business.

You can't live like a monk if you have two five-year-old twins. That ain't happening. Just the opposite, actually.

There isn't a spare minute in the day. I have spent my life doing everything. I work. I go home. I do the shopping. I cook. Then there's the laundry and the dog. Most of my life, I have been a working mother. And even when I wasn't, I still did it all.

We are all so busy and constantly trying to save time and balance everything.

I'm always working, and I'm a single parent, so I don't think I have time for stuff most normal people do.

My friends who have kids look like they haven't been to bed for a year.

I have children, and they demand my full and complete attention. They get that when I'm at home, even during the night, but it is really hard, and I do wonder how a lot of women do it without bawling their eyes out every day.