Realising we’ve all been scammed by this Easter/school holiday combo deal. Listening to consecutive tantrums and headbanging on the concrete floors. What the f*ck child? Needing to sleep for at least 4 days straight. Enjoyed a lie-in this morning until 7.06am at which time …
I’m not going to write my usual bitch ‘n moan style post about the school holidays as I’m not feeling it this year. E and I have had some hard days, but we’ve moved on and had some totally kick-ass days too. Those days make …
We’re not quite at the post-Christmas, New Year reflection period yet, but 2014 has been such a great year for me that I’m eager to keep the momentum going and launch into 2015 feeling focused, motivated and goal-directed. This requires a little thinking about what I want to achieve and how I’m going to get there.
I’ve used the four pillars of health identified by Sovereign as; exercise, eating well, sleep and happiness as my starting point for this wee introspective exercise that will hopefully set me on the right path to achieving my personal goals in 2015.
Fitting this is first as it’s something I’m tackling immediately in the New Year. Training is underway for my first ever Triathlon! Yes. Running. Swimming. Cycling. All in a row. In one day.
So, I’m feeling good about everything except the cycle. I don’t have a road bike so have been training on my mountain bike which is not ideal but it has wheels! Looking further ahead, I need some yoga in my life and am hoping to achieve a touch more balance when Nixon eventually stops breastfeeding and becomes less dependant upon me in the evenings. This will free me up to schedule some evening classes a couple of times a week and place more value on what I need to do for my body.
Lets just clear the air here; living on cashews and dates is just not for me, in fact it is so far from me it’s never, e v e r going to happen. I like food and I like cooking and I LOVE butter, bacon, chocolate and wine way to much to partake in any raw eating diet. That said, I am invested in healthy, moderate eating. There are a few tweaks to be made in 2015;
Lord, this one’s the easiest. My husband and I must start going to bed earlier. Not just landing into the actual bed, but beginning our sleep routine earlier; brushing teeth, getting the dogs settled, taking vitamins {+ in my case medication}, face cleansing routine, reading, playing on the phones………for how long? Right. Everything needs to kick off much earlier so we can eliminate this lights off at 11.35pm business.
This one’s the deal breaker; I want 2015 to be the year of happiness. This year I quit an unfulfilling job that was stressing me out and eating in to my family time. Since then, I have been able to focus so much more energy on building my own brand via my blog and just simply writing. This makes me happy and it is this route to happiness that I intend to chase throughout the year in 2015.
I also want to focus more on relationships; building those that matter to me, working hard on investing in quality family life and recognizing those friends that lift me up and make my heart sing.
So, obviously this is no list of resolutions but a fairly fast & loose road map of how I plan to tackle the year ahead.
Radio Hauraki is pretty much a part of my DNA. I grew up listening to Dad rock out to DJ Kevin Black playing Dire Straights, Led Zeppelin and ACDC while cruising in his ute, albeit horribly embarrassed by his ute as a teenage girl is …
Today I hung the washing out in the sunshine, listening to an Oprah and Deepak meditation on my phone {no, for real I was! check it here}.
And then it hailed.
I spent 10 minutes changing the baby’s diaper, blow drying his bum and gently applying lotions to his poor bleeding skin.
And then he poohed within 2 minutes of setting him down. {This happened about 12 times today actually}.
I took a shower for the first time in two days and was reminded what a hassle it actually was. Being clean meant that I was then required to brush my hair and put moisturiser on etc and LOOK AT ALL THAT DIRTY LAUNDRY I JUST MADE! Due to my nekid-face-state I was blindly slapping on some BB cream and bronzer, spilt the BB cream on my sweatshirt, washed that off then dropped the bronzer compact on the tiles where it of course shattered into a million powdery pieces much to Nixon’s delight. It was just one of those days – and it’s my blog so I can whinge and stomp my feet if I want to, right?.
I didn’t actually have to leave the house until 3pm today when we went to swimming lessons, but the list of things to do before them seemed to grow every second so that my mind was spinning and I felt like I actually might get none of said things ticked off the mental list. {The cookies didn’t get baked until 8.30pm but huzzah! We have fresh cookies!}.
>>>> This leads to something I can’t get out of my head; a former colleagues wife asked me after Nixon was born “so, what do you actually do all day?”. And you know what? I couldn’t think of a damn thing to say. Seriously, surely as a second time stay at home Mum I must have some clue as to what I do between the hours of 5am and 5pm? I just gawked at her with a blank stare so, so surprised that anyone would ever ask a Mum of a young child such a stupid question. Everyone knows all we do is wait for Ellen to come on and read Home & Garden while sipping Nespresso right?
Sigh.
I was just walking by the computer and read an email, which led me to a new blog, which even though it ain’t pretty is full of some awesome content, and COMMENTS {remember them? hello? anyone out there?} and made me think, “wtf am I doing?” and why am I doing it so obviously wrong? and who are all of these bloggers that I don’t know?”. Is there now an Old School vs New School mummy blogger thing going on? Have we who have been rumbling around these familiar blogs for years and years been laid out to pasture? I don’t know.
So, if any one you have discovered a wondrous new blog of late please share! And maybe you’ll come back again another day? If I promise to stop complaining? {You all have days like these too, yes?}.