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"  When she&amp;#039;s not chatting with her cohosts on The View or representing the gluten-free world with her book, The G-Free Diet, Elisabeth Hasselbeck is focusing on the most important people in her life: her family.   I don&amp;#039;t use the word &amp;quot;balance.&amp;quot; Nobody&amp;#039;s life is ever all balanced. It&amp;#039;s a conscious decision to choose your priorities every day. There&amp;#039;s always going to be a ball up in the air and what I try to do is make sure that ball is never the kids. If that means sacrificing a social event or having fewer work commitments, it&amp;#039;s worth it.   I&amp;#039;m more attracted to my husband Tim now, as a father, than ever before. It&amp;#039;s a whole new level. To see your spouse in a parental role is one of the most incredible things. It deepened and expanded our understanding of each other as people.   You have to be your own health advocate. After what I went through to figure out I had celiac disease, I now get all of my blood results sent to me. I&amp;#039;m not depending on someone else to read them. We have incredible medical professionals out there, but we&amp;#039;re all human, too, so I think that mistakes can be made. Sometimes we put too much in other people&amp;#039;s hands.   I always make the same resolution each year: Send more handwritten letters. There&amp;#039;s something so special about the process\u2014writing a note, putting a stamp on it and taking it to the mailbox, then hoping to get something back in return. Again this year, I&amp;#039;m going to try to write some real letters to friends and family, not just e-mails.   I just painted a six-foot canvas for our living room. My 4-year-old daughter, Grace, and I painted the same scene side by side. Hers is much better than mine! I majored in industrial design/painting, but haven&amp;#039;t had time to exercise that creativity. To dive into a passion I had a long time ago felt good. I never thought I would be that woman who would say, &amp;quot;I haven&amp;#039;t painted in 10 years because I&amp;#039;ve been so busy with life.&amp;quot; You find yourself in a new way as a parent, but you definitely lose some of who you were. It&amp;#039;s so important to go back and remember what used to make you tick.   At the end of the day, I&amp;#039;ve lived well if I&amp;#039;ve had quality time with my husband and with my kids. If I don&amp;#039;t have those two components, it feels as though I&amp;#039;ve missed something. Oh, and a good workout always helps too! I could take on the world after a great workout. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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