The past 10 days have been hard. Why? Too long and complicated to explain. Let’s just say at the moment, I feel ripped to shreds, and I need some serious mending before I get back on track.
One of my new blogging friends at 365 Days, 365 Ways recently suggested listing the unhappies in your life in order to recognize them and start pushing them out. I am working on that, but took it a little further. I’m also making a list of happies, simple pleasures, that I need to put back into my life.
I know me, and I need this accountability to keep me going – even for the stuff that should seem easy to accomplish. So, I came up with 3 things I can do that will help me heal a little this weekend. If I put this out there, if I say I do it, I will. You guys hold me to it.
1. I’m going to sleep late Saturday and Sunday. Lazy, lazy, lazy. It’s my favorite thing in the world, and I’m doing it this weekend. I’m tired. I’m sleeping in.
2. I’m going to make homemade lemonade, the real kind with real lemons and real sugar. I’ve only had homemade lemonade once since I was a little girl, and even that time was 20 years ago. Someone tell me how many lemons to buy, and how much sugar to put in, please.
3. I’m going to swim. I live in the South, and it’s hotter than Hades right now. I’m going to turn my phone off, hide our vehicles so it looks like nobody’s home, and get in my pool. Swimming has been my all-time favorite activity since I was a little girl. We’ve had a small pool at our home for 3 summers, and we’ve only been in it a handful of times. I’m going to swim with Walt and some of my dogs, laze around on a float, drink lemonade, and listen to the call of the two BobWhites that have taken up residence on the farm.
I’ll be brand new Monday, back on the diet, back to organizing the chaos, back to the promises I’ve made to myself and to others. But starting tomorrow at 5:00, Selfish Michelle’s coming for a visit, and Busy Michelle is being kicked to the curb for a couple of days.
Y’all have a fabulous, healing weekend yourselves, now, ya hear?
I wish you the same! I hope it’s a weekend full of many mellow joys, not just the three you’ve listed above.
Thank you, too, for the reminder I’ve got to take Li’l D swimming! He gets wiggly for water every time he sees it, so I’d better start letting encouraging that love.
Also? Curses. I forgot as I typed this that it’s Thursday, not Friday. It’ll be Friday evening soon enough, I suppose!
Sometimes we need to just let everything else go and focus on what we need to make things “right” for ourselves. It is not being selfish. It is self-care. If we cannot take care of ourselves, there will be very little left to care for others. Enjoy your R & R! : )
btw,
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Oh my gosh! I was just reading the few blogs I think are “read-daily” worthy, and left Miss Stella a good luck message. Then my email “ding”ed, and I had an award! How exciting!!!! I’m touched and honored! I do try to be genuine, although I worry sometimes it comes across as whiny. No sense in putting it out there if it’s not honest.
Thank you SO much! I will definitely pay it forward. I appreciate your blog so much, those pictures of Miss Stella make me laugh out loud, even on the ickiest Mondays! Thanks!!!!