I had a rough night last night. I could not get to sleep, and at 3 am I was still awake. This doesn’t typically happen to me, but there was just too much stuff going on in my brain last night and I couldn’t turn it off. This meant I didn’t wake up early which […]
Self Care
Day 35: I Get By With A Little Help From My Kids
Today’s post is short and sweet because it’s 8:17 pm and the kids (and Number 7 in particular) are waiting for me to watch Little House On The Prairie (we are on Season 6 and Laura and Almonzo are going to become an item at some point in this season and they are super anxious […]
Day 34: Just Because Flowers
This morning I got a notification from USPS that my package had been shipped and would be arriving sometime between 11:15 am and 2:15 pm. I ordered some replacement parts for my vacuum early this morning — like around 5:30 — so I knew it wasn’t that. I could not for the life of me […]
Day 32: Hitting The Reset Button
We have spring break this week which means no distance learning. This is both good and bad. It’s good because there are no schoolwork freak outs. But it’s bad because when the structure of the school day goes, so does a lot of other stuff. Today being the day after Easter and the first day […]
Day 31: Breaking Through The Chrysalis
We went to my parents’ house today for an Easter egg hunt. They still live in my childhood home about 25 minutes away from where I live now. It’s about the only tradition we’ve hung on to for all the kids every year at Easter, and my parents have an awesome yard which is perfect […]
Day 28: Level Weird
We had some pretty significant meltdowns this morning. It was also raining, and I needed to exercise, but I just couldn’t muster up the motivation to go for a run in the rain. Around 9:45 I had to abort distance learning and put Number 4 in charge of Number 7 because she was totally off […]
