Life And Everything In Between
On Friday afternoon, I spewed out this post of all the things that had happened, but I didn’t publish it Straight away because I didn’t want to seem moany. I feel much better today, but perhaps it’s still useful to share this as a lot of what I share, especially on Instagram, is sunny pictures or my new health routine.
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I think that too often when I write about life and everything else in between, not just the physical act of doing things for pets or the house or for other people, but also the feeling of things not being just how we would ideally want them to be. Do you ever feel like this?
Here’s what Friday looked like and what I wrote at the time:
7:00 am — I woke up to the sun in my eyes.. (forgetting to close the curtains the night before) by the noise of our dogs barking. I wake up my little boy; I often feel so helpless when he looks at me, wanting to sleep a little longer.
7:30 am — Make breakfast as quick as I can, shoving cups, plates and pots around like a crazy duck. Have my coffee, and I still try to get my Uplift (energy drink) in, Get nagged by the dog for breakfast. Wash yesterday’s dishes.
8 am — Out the door and on the school run, Still trying to process the morning, but it usually runs smoothly.
9 am — I’m back home from the school run. Get all my health intake, and I'm ready for the day. I check my blog during the week and choose what I want to write about. I recently wrote about The UK’s human rights, but I had a terrible incident where my whole page wiped out. I felt gutted because I had taken two whole days to write it all up. I was so proud of it, but it was gone.
By 3 pm — On the school run again, get home and make lunch. Do my son’s homework with him. Handling all the mini-tantrums that go with it.
7:30 pm — Dinner. Gobbling all the food off the plate, while still managing to feed my son, who sometimes refuses to finish what’s on his plate. Since when do we have to negotiate with kids? Kids are great at negotiating, by the way! I'm surprised by their whit at times.
8 pm — Bedtime. I’m exhausted and so ready to switch off.
I’ve Hot-wired myself to get things done, despite procrastinating about the things that worry me the most, but at the end of the day, everything gets done. I often ask myself how I did it because, at the end of each day, I lay my head down on my pillow, and I’m relieved that everything is sorted. Not everything is how I would ideally want it to be, but life is not bad. But I also feel like sometimes I’m taking care of things, and I don’t take the time to care of myself. There are days I look like a vehicle run over twice. This quote is awesome and goes like this.
“even if you're not ready for the day, it can’t always be night,”
This motivates me to get on with it. Some days, even dressing seems like a hassle; I want to look great but do I have time? I only have two looks! My hobo look, and when I clean up nice (and I clean up real nice!) My vibes go in waves that swoosh up the shore and make a huge bang! And tides that go low and still, but hey, not every day is a cup of tea.
I love my daily routine, and I wouldn’t have it any other way, truth be told. It's so impeded into my life that I probably can’t do without it now.