Do you ever have days when you feel like an abysmal failure? Days when everything is like a comedy of errors only you’re not laughing? Days when you get absolutely nothing done around the house AND you get surly with anyone who crosses your path?
The best cure for a cruddy day is a little time alone....but with two kids, that’s easier said than done.
I seem to be having a string of these days. Take today, for instance. The kids were up by 6:30 a.m. (who said stay-at-home moms get to sleep in??), we were late for a meeting with T’s teacher, I missed my exit and made us even later for said meeting, got chewed out at meeting for being a slacker homeschooler, left meeting with squalling baby in car, had to stop for gas with baby still squalling in car, and got home to find the fridge had been left open for four hours and half its contents were warm and sweaty.
Whenever I have an utter “fail” day like this, it is an urgent and important reminder that I need some time to myself. To rejuvenate. Recharge. Get my groove back. And while I’d love to spend an entire day at the spa getting massages, having my hair styled, and eating scrumptious delights that *someone else* prepared, for now, I must content myself with small (yet precious) moments of “me time.”
Here are some mini-ways I try to recharge my batteries, bit by bit. These might sound woefully insignificant to some, but for a mom whose days and nights seem to blur together, even the smallest fraction of a freeing moment can work wonders and give perspective. Continue reading →
