Oh Crap! – Musings of an Unperfect Mommy

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March 31, 2016

*I wrote this post on March 22 or 23 so the weather has changed a little – I’ll update at the end. :-)

Today is a raw wintry day despite the calendar saying spring started last Sunday. I had turned the heat off two days ago only to be turned back on this morning due to a brutal cold wind. Well, probably not as brutal as Minnesota, but to me it’s cold nonetheless.

We’re getting to the end of an emotionally difficult week and I’m taking time to slow down a little and read and relax. I have been feeling so overwhelmed this month and I’m glad that next month is our big homeschool break. I’m thinking about things I want to do and need to do and getting ready to put a plan in place. I need to add in time to take the kids places like a museum or the park or the town down the street because we haven’t been in a long time and everyone’s itching to go.

I had a counseling session that left me upset but it was good because it challenged me. She was wanting to know what I wanted to do for myself and ways to take care of me. I felt pressured though, so after I got home I wrote a list of things I wanted to do and what I didn’t want to do and that helped me regain focus. I’ve thought about it since and I know my number one priority has to be to get healthy. If I’m going to do anything else like taking care of kids, the house, or do something for me down the line like college classes, then I have to be taking care of my health first.

It was also really weird because the day after that session I went online and started finding a lot of help – it was as if God was following me around. I found this article about what self care is and isn’t. Then, I found this blog which I’d heard about but never really looked at but should have because it has a lot to do with books (and we all know I’m a bookaholic). Through her newsletters I was able to buy the e-version of Jewel’s book “Never Broken” for cheaps so I downloaded that and will listen to it next month when I have the time for something deeper. She (Modern Mrs. Darcy) has a great podcast called “What Should I Read Now” and I went to the library that day to get one of her recommendations from that show: “The Kitchen Counter Cooking School” by Kathleen Flinn. But, I also found Flinn’s first book, “The Sharper Your Knife, The Less You Cry” about her time at Le Cordon Bleu so I took that out too. And finished it in two days. Today I will start the other one.

So, I feel a little buoyed up now and thinking about my life and what I’d like to do with it when the time presents itself.

*Today is March 31 so I’ll update. I am almost done with “Kitchen Counter Cooking School” and I would highly recommend it if you would like to learn to cook simple healthy meals for yourself/your family. Kathleen Finn also has videos on YouTube including videos about the volunteers for the books as well as tutorials like knife skills so check it out.

Only two days of school left and time for our break. I feel so depleted. Part of it is not taking care of myself and part is just exhaustion from the last few months. My focus for April will be taking care of me – my health and my sanity. I am also going to start decluttering each room – things are really messy right now.

And the weather has been a roller coaster ride. Warm, cold, warm, cold and last night we had tornadic storms. Welcome spring. :-P

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