05/12/2021
Sometimes I share a room re-do or a recipe... today I’m sharing a little real life truth.
Don’t get me wrong, I love the room re-dos & recipes a LOT. But as a Mama of 4, spanning ages from 16 down to 3... I have a lot more real life to share than the fancy fun things.
So I spent Mother’s Day morning at the laundromat, because our washer has hit the fritz & let’s be honest the whole ‘a Mother’s work is never done’ rings pretty dang true and we are a family of 6 & were running out of clean pants. Well, the repair man came bright & early Monday morning and did what he thought was the repair... it spun while he was here which was the issue. I paid him and went on about my week. Yesterday, me & my oldest had our dental cleanings... it’s been a little over year for me and my son had his braces removed a couple months ago and this was his first cleaning since. Well, I have a cavity, so does he... also he needs a root canal and a crown. So after getting the estimate and making appointments for me to come back for my filling & brining my daughter in for her cleaning... we went to the car and I felt a pressure in my chest. I know y’all can relate... that ‘it’s always something’ feeling... you catch up somewhere and then out of left field you’re looking at a $1,000 bill. Fun stuff. That’s life though.
Well fast-forward to dinner time... I’m picking up and realize there’s black sharpie scribbles in the playroom. Yup, the playroom I literally just redid last week... there it was - black sharpie all over the toy storage piece I just built. Magic eraser didn’t make a dent - I’m going to have to refinish it. I was fuming mad.
Parenting is not always easy. It can be expensive when you’re not even prepared for an expense and it can be messy - when you’ve worked really hard at making something nice.
Well I went to do laundry for the first time in the ‘fixed’ washing machine... only to find out that it was in fact NOT fixed. Now I had a full load of soaking wet clothes and the laundromat was closed for the night.
I reached out to a friend and she didn’t hesitate in inviting me to come rewash it at her house. We haven’t spent much time together over the last couple months. We both have kids kind of the same ages - teens and toddlers, life is busy. But I showed up and loaded my clothes in her washer and we caught up... on all the things: life, kids, marriage, even dentist appointments. What I walked away with is this: life is not easy per say, for anyone. Some days EVERYTHING feels like it hits you at once... but I can promise you this - you are NOT alone & tomorrow is a new day. It doesn’t mean you’re going to wake up in the morning and it will all be magically fixed... but perspective can change when you stop & rest. I woke up this AM, still feeling somewhat overwhelmed... but not near as defeated as I felt when I went to bed last night.
The repair man is coming back today to hopefully fix the washer issue and I’ll make a game plan to knock out the dental work... none of this is easier to tackle today than it was yesterday but my attitude is different. It certainly doesn’t feel as daunting as it did when I laid down last night.
It may sound silly, but I do always try to find the lesson in the mess... and I know there isn’t anything handed to me that’s ‘too much’. Because in the big picture a root canal and broken washer are small potatoes right?! 🦷🥔🧺
So all that to say... when a day is a little mucky or hard - go to bed. When you wake up in the morning... Just. Get. Up.
Even if getting up is all you do - do it.
Every. Day. Get. Up. Deciding a new day brings new perspective is half the battle right there.
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