Cooking – I'm not, it's not fun, like even a little bit.
Arts & Crafts – I mean sometimes, but I work full-time so most of our crafts consist of me laying a sheet out on the kitchen table and she can have at it while I force myself to cook something. No big Pinterest projects in our house.
Doing my Makeup – Have you ever watched a contour video? I always leave confused. I know it's possible, just still...how?!
Keeping my House Clean – I can pick up everything on Sunday and the next day it's a mess again. I hope your messes look like our messes, shoes in every room, applesauce pouches on the floor, goldfish crumbs on the couch, cups upon cups on ever surface (although this is my contribution to the problem), Makeup all over my bathroom counter, dirty clothes. every.freaking.where.
Organizing – I used to love organizing, I still do this as therapy some weekends. I really do enjoy it. But, now it's just hard to find time and it feels like it being undone in a month isn't worth the doing.
Being a Mom – I have to proactively choose to not tell myself I am a bad mom in moments throughout the week. We have got to ease up on ourselves.
A Wife – It is a struggle to find time to be intentional with one another, we have to be mindful of this weekly and it's hard.
My Job – This one's hard for me because I am a perfectionist and this is the easiest space for that side of me to creep up. I have to consciously work to remove my performance and identity. Because either way if it's good performance or poor performance it's an issue.
Working Out– More on this in a second.
I had a mentor tell me once that you can be good at everything, just not everything all the time.
I think back to that so often.
I will not always be a good mom, or employee, or wife or cook etc.
But some days I will be good at those things.
And on the days where I'm not, I need to extend grace to myself and move on.
Laying aside the societal pressures to be good at all, I've chosen one thing on the list that I've been SO BAD AT since Harper was born that's felt like the easiest one to tackle and actually measure.
Which counts for something right? I wouldn't even know where to start measuring my mom/wife stats and would probably just end up sad in the end, lol. If we're being real.
I've decided I want to workout regularly and I'm done using the excuse that I hate running and don't have time to go to a gym as a reason to not. I wrote about this AISLE9 today and would love to you to jump over and read. I think I've finally found a system that works for me and am bonus already feeling better and seeing results.
In all, it's glory, The Busy Mom's Guide to Working out at Home.
I hope you find this helpful, there's just too much content out there that makes us feel worse about ourselves. We need to help each other out, moms! Give me your tips on any of the above and I'll be your friend forever. : ) K, but really. I'll take it.
Thanks for sticking with me!
Kelsey
