As we all make crazy resolutions to be mad skinny or zen as hell… I'm going to take us back to the dark days of not leaving the house, no/weird school, no gym, no playgrounds, no sports, no activities. At the point of this pic I have a 5 month old, a supposed to be in prek kid, and a supposed to be in normal kindergarten kid. The ages have changed and the 2022 times are not as isolating but the premise of my discovery back then is still and ALWAYS will be true…
20 minutes
Post from 2020 ⬇️
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I'm not doing one of those posts where I show you how fast I am because well, I'm not fast 😜
My kids are told that mom needs 20 minutes to be healthy and they're to stay on their side of the couch🙈It's not possible to be a good mom 24/7 unless you separate yourself for a period of time...well at least I can't!
The older two have their lunches and watch tv. Rhett is placed in the walker and scoots around screaming at objects. It's inevitable...they will each cry at least once in that 20 min time period but I can see them and I know they're ok. I'm not getting off this treadmill unless I see it's an emergency...I just turn the music up louder🤐
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Fast forward two years later- SURPRISE- I still don't have it figured out. I crave a workout schedule and have been for 8 years- one that's consistent and doesn't get pushed to the wayside. I work every.single.week to find and then incorporate little snippets of time for myself. No, not because I dislike my kids but rather so I can avoid the unfocused overstimulated feeling of normal, beautiful, mom life…so that I can be a better, present “all in” parent during other points of the day.
You are a mom - what works today should be celebrated because you will need a different idea to make things work tomorrow :) That’s just how it goes.
“Blessed are the flexible for they will never be bent out of shape”
So heck YES- set those January goals but realize you will not accomplish them in the parameters in which you first created them because- that was yesterday. HA-HA you silly human. They will need to alter. They will need to be tweaked but that's not failing.
When you’ve hit that point in which you’re about ready to feel sorry for yourself. When you get grouchy and believe others have it easier and there's just no time for you. Get up and…
Find your 20 minutes. Your kids/your babies need you to care for you.
If it means they all cry and whine behind a couch and you run on a treadmill- cool.
If it means you strap them down and you drive through Starbucks and then sit in a parking lot explaining to the masses in the back that… “the car needs a little break” and you turn up your early 2000s dancing bar fav tunes- know that you're awesome and I may know someone who does that often.
If it means they get placed in a crib and scream their head off while you sit in the hall and cry/try to read a book you started reading back in 2018- good for freakin' you!
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If it means they watch Frozen for the 27th time on the couch (while the dog helps them eat their lunch) and you sit at the bar behind them with ear plugs in so you can type an article, this article;) It's all good, friend. Do it.
Side note: couldn't find my ear plugs so that's actually modeling clay in my ears today but ya know- gotta be flexible ;)
Find a "thing" that works for today and do that "thing" for 20 minutes.
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