It is slowly dawing on me, though, that the great balance I worked so hard for the last few months to achieve is now gone. I had whittled out some variables and was able to rearrange my days to make way for the biggest priorities, taking out a few of my favorites, but overall it worked okay. But now . . . vacation is getting going and I'm totally off kilter again!
Things that got squeezed out and I need to encourage back into my days:
- yoga (which will hopefully return with Date Night in July)- date night (we've taken a hiatus for some family visitors at my parents' house)
- book reading (I've only neglected it for a week, but I miss it! I have read 3 magazines cover-to-cover twice, though)
- book promotion (I was fried and intentionally let this one go for about 2 weeks, but NEED to get back on it!)
- strength training (OK, you caught me - I've never been good at having this in my routine - other than yoga - so this is a new one that I'm wanting and needing to inject into my life. Are you proud, MizFit?)
Things that are new to my days and not going anywhere:
- having my son home all day, every day (LOVE him, but I'm not used to having him here all day!)
- my daughter's morning nap is getting later and later, sending me the red flag that the morning nap is about to become obsolete (AGH!!!!!!)
- sunshine (at least I hope this one is here to stay for at least one whole season!)
I'm thankful that other than ditching the 10K and replacing it with a short run on Saturday, my running has been a constant during the past few months. We have some "new" toys (translation: a freebie toy kitchen from a garage sale and the food toys that used to be without a cooking area) near the treadmill, so I'm thinking of having the kids explore their gourmet talents (translation: lick the plastic foods and then pass them to one another in plastic pots, open and close all of the doors a million times, stir around matchbox cars in the pots and flick the microwave "dinger" until it just won't ding anymore) one morning a week while I make like a hamster and log my miles in the house. I can run outside the other days in the evenings when my husband is home, but this gives the kids some toy variety and insures that I stick with my increase in milage.That all being said, I'm off to relax. I think that's something else that gets neglected. Don't you think we'd all be a bit better off if we just took the time to breathe (and I don't mean on a run or practicing yoga, I just mean while doing nothing . . . or curling up with a book . . . ) and just BE. I'm so much of a "Type A" person that I forget that it is healthy to have rest, too.
How often do you find yourself revamping your plans for life balance?
7 comments:
Balance is always something I need to constantly evaluate and work on. You're right - we do all need some "me" time every once in a while. :)
I'm not a parent, so I get plenty of "me" time. It pretty much rocks.
i feel guilty or get anxious when i try and relax. im a big stress/guilt ball. i sometimes wonder if its really relaxing if i have to try...
anyways, i am ALWAYS trying to find the most efficient/easiest/fastest way to do everything I need to do, but the only thing that really helps me is to write it down in my planner and cross it off as I go.
Don't you think we'd all be a bit better off if we just took the time to breathe?
YESYESYESYESYES.
Miz
Guilt for me too when I get down time. I am so not used to it (besides the time I allow myself on here) that I don't really know how to go about it anymore. I bring homework to the beach and draw while I am there now if there is actually a time that the kids let me sit.
This made me want a nap ;)
I'm right there with you on being type A. Doing "nothing?"- Can't remember what that's like ;)
Hope you can find a balance and some "me" time soon..
Good luck finding the balance. I dno't know how you parents do it!
(And just when you get a new routine down, it will be time to change again."
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