My Pep Talk to Myself

Do you ever feel like your day is over before it even began?
Like it’s too filled up… it’s too overwhelming… it’s just too much for you to take on.
You don’t have enough minutes in your day. Or enough moments of sanity to make it happen.
I have days like that and I have been trying to take a step back in those moments and remember to choose joy.
Choose to see the good in my day. I HAVE a day!! I have this day and I have these moments.
They might not be calm and relaxing and they probably involve lots of not
fun tasks and juggling things all at once…
but I’m positive that they’ll also be moments in that day that can bring me joy!!
I just need to slow down and see them.

Instead of stressing over what I didn’t get done during Asher’s nap…
I’ll be content that I got some stuff done and enjoy the post nap snuggles.
Smooch those cheeks and let him snuggle in on my shoulder.
Instead of freaking out over the noise and mess of kids I’ll just sit right in it and play!
Throw the list out the window and pick it back up when I can!
I’ll not rush the convos with my kids so I can zoom around running errands
or respond to all the messages dinging on my phone…
but instead try to enjoy those conversations while I sit and fold laundry.
They don’t want you to stop doing everything…
they really just want you to not be a moving target. If I have to be doing stuff, it’s the
brainless things that I can do and still be plugged into them.
These are the things I save for when they get home from school.

I’ll try to realize my toddlers world feels like it is falling a part but my world is not, in fact, falling a part.
I’ll try to get through the tantrums and know that yes…
I’ll probably be redirecting and doing timeout again today… multiple times…
But that disciplining kids is not really my entire day. It just feels like it.

I want to not rush bedtime routine so that I can get back to work.
I want to slow down and ever so often let the kids delay bedtime by chatting my ear off.
I want to live a full life with my crew and sometimes that means craziness is gonna be going on.
Kids make messes. Dreams demand work.
It doesn’t mean I can’t have a peaceful and joyful home. It won’t always be picture perfect…
But I’m learning to be ok with that.
I can’t expect my kids to act like adults. They are kids.

And I can’t expect my dreams to happen without some late nights and laundry piling up.
It’s all part of it. And I’m choosing to be ok and happy with all of it. I can choose to remove to do’s.
I can take off my plate some things that aren’t priority. And then focus on my top things.
Do the best I can and keep on chugging.
It seems silly to live life feeling like you are drowning in to do’s.
Do what you can.

Be realistic with the season you are in. And keep in mind that the
thing you are stressing over most likely isn’t the end of the world.
You’ll get through it. So often I have a million little things on my mind that I need to do…
but all of them….aren’t earth shattering. It’ll all be ok!
Everyone’s emergency doesn’t have to be your emergency.
Remember who’s at the top of your list.
Make sure you are on there somewhere too. Take time for mama to recharge.
Be ok with asking for help.

Be ok with saying no to things so you can say yes to the things that matter most to you.
At the end of my time here on earth, I know I won’t wish I earned more money,
or had a bigger house or had more instagram followers…
I’ll want to know I had time with my loved ones and lived and worked every day for Him.

This is a pep talk to myself. but maybe you needed to hear it today too. :)
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