Oh Crap! – Musings of an Unperfect Mommy

Looking Back and Moving Forward

August 15, 2021

I’m thinking it might be nice to do a weekly review for awhile. I’m also doing a weekly self reflection in my planner to kind of get my goals on if you will. As I’ve said before, I’m a great planner but putting things into action I’m not and I want to change that. So, hopefully these two things will help get me moving.

So, it was a rough week as far as healing from my tooth surgery. Eating has been limited to mushy foods but now I’m branching out to slightly chewier substances. It’s not easy and I’m trying to let that area of my mouth heal, but I’m worried I’m babying it more than I should. The pain has subsided though, and it’s getting easier every day to eat a little more normally.

I think I mentioned that I lost a couple pounds right away as well and that has kept up due to very low calorie eating days. I’m almost back down to where I was at the beginning of the year and so the plan is to get on track to keep that weight loss up. And that means eating properly. I need to get back to whole foods and eating three good meals to start.

I also thought about creating a personal wellness plan and I found an article about how to do that and it’s just like that Mom Operating Manual book – Sleep, Nutrition, Exercise, Water. The other part of it is to track and see where the problems are and get them to where they should be. I bought this book so I can keep track of problems as well as progress. That way I’ll have a clearer picture of how I’m doing and how to adjust.

In other news, the tree people came out and got the tree work done. There’s just a little finishing up to do and then I can get some people in here to start a maintenance plan to get the yards where I want them to be and also to plan how I’d like my outdoor space to be.

Speaking of outdoors, I looked out the bathroom skylight last night and saw the moon. That’s when I realized that I haven’t noticed it in months. That’s how crazy life has been this year. I really need to start spending some time outside or even just noticing the sunsets and sunrises and moon phases again. We had some general thunderstorms on Friday and it was really soothing. I live in an area of the country where wild weather is the norm, so this was a treat. All that to say it’s time to get back out in nature because when I do I’m better for it.

My youngest daughters started their senior year on Thursday as well. I have to say as much as I do miss them (not to mention the worry with this pandemic still raging), I’m enjoying the quiet in the house too. I even had a couple hours to myself one afternoon and that was nice. I relaxed a little and then did some financial stuff I needed to get done. What I need to do here is spend that time alone with more intention. Whether it’s reading, writing, exercising, just sitting outside, I need to stop the mindless things of tv and internet and focus on things I really want to do. I think that goes back to the planning and not doing thing I’m stuck in. It’s time to make some things happen.

Okay so that was last week and my planner is pretty blank this week except for kids’ work schedules so I need to take my own advice in the previous paragraph and get intentional about my goals and ideas and such. September is right around the corner and I like to use it as another new year – a new beginning. Hope you have some blank space in your calendar for doing either just what you like or for what you need to do. Let’s live life and not just move through each day like drones – we were made for more than that. Pax Christi.

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On August 22, 2021 at 6:15 AM, Bro said:

I know what you mean regarding mind numbing television / video watching. I've gotten back into spending time reading and have significantly reduced screen time. That said, I do read on an eReader so there's that screen. DOH! ;-)
Cheers!

On September 16, 2021 at 3:54 PM, java_queen said:

Hey Bro - good to see you here! Too bad I didn't get the notice you had commented - going to have to look into that. Maybe I missed the notice. It is hard to get away from screens isn't it? Lately I've been scrolling through Insta a little too much so I need to fill in that time with something else. Like decluttering the house. :D Glad you are reading more books again even if it is on a screen. For me only the real deal books will do - guess I'm just a dinosaur that way. I love the look, feel, and smell of them. So satisfying.

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August 15, 2021

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