RACHEL'S STORY...

When I was born, my mom made me a quilt. Let's rephrase. When I was born, my mom started to make me a quilt. And she finished on the day I left for college. Now my mom is one of those has-it-all-together women, so this procrastination was a freak occurence for her. But rather than learn her all-togetherness, procrastination was the skill I decided to take.

But I recently became a wife. And let's face it, it's strange to label myself as that because besides loving my husband, I don't really act as such. But I'd like to.

The other day, my husband (who I have lived with for over a year) said to me, "we don't have an ironing board, do we?" Embarrassingly, the answer is yes, we do. I've just never used it. Sidenote: what we don't have is a vacuum. This brings me to my next thought. Since I've become a wife, I feel way less wifey than ever before. And I don't like that. There's something about this rite of passage that makes me want to denounce my modern ways and embrace old school wifehood. But how to find the time?

Marriage for me coincided with my first ever full time job (at the ripe old age of thirty). So all of a sudden I find myself with no time to do anything. Or maybe I'm spending all my free time complaining about having no time, therefore encroaching on the free time I actually do have. Which leads me to the conclusion that it's simply not possible to do it all... and I call bullshit on anyone who claims they can. And I believed that until I had drinks with my agent.

My agent, is a hip, cool, stylish, successful businesswoman, wife and mother of two. MOTHER OF TWO. And somehow she finds the time to get her kids ready for school, workout for an hour while reading scripts, work all day, spend time with her kids after work, make a gourmet meal for she and her husband, have drinks with ME, and still actually sleep. On a daily basis. I'm not sure if I can squeeze all of this in on a weekly basis. All I manage to do on this list is ... none of it. Just kidding, I totally microwave Trader Joe's frozen food.

So I think it's time to embrace this wife/adult thing and actually act like one. And now, not 18 years after I start.