A Fresh Start For Mother’s Day
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How was your Mother’s Day? I’m curious to know what some of you did….
I was all game to go to the Affordable Art Fair for Mother’s Day and then I backed out the night before. You know what I did instead? I slept in. However, just in the middle of diving into a nice warm pool in my dream, I was awakened by everyone coming into the bedroom with a breakfast tray and cards (yes, I was a little grumpy about having my dive interrupted, not to mention my sleep) , but the happy smiles were hard to ignore. Then I went back to skimming magazines and books and fell back asleep. It was the best day I have had in a long time!
This Mother’s Day was different for me. I treated it like an end goal to help change a few things in my life. I wrote about in my new column for NY Family Magazine. The premise is that I would take each of the 6 days preceding Mother’s Day and have a goal for each one. The goal was to feel more in charge of my constantly changing life and embrace the changes (or, at least feel in more control over them).
Here was my plan:
Day One: I will be unaffected by negativism.
Day Two: I will begin my Gratitude Journal.
Day Three: I am going to organize a drawer or shelf.
Day Four: Today, I am going to let my husband be the parenting expert that I like to think I am in our house.
Day Five: I will work on accepting that there are some things I just can’t change and others I can.
Day Six: I will get control over my sugar addiction.
Wonder which ones I succeeded at actually doing? Well, you would have thought going a day without sugar would have been the cinch. Apparently not. We watched a movie at home and a movie just isn’t complete without Twizzlers for me. Ugh! I did actually do okay with Day One; the whole day I said “hi” to everyone I met, and tried not to care if they didn’t say “hi” back. The best part was, I got lots of smiles from surprising places and Birch felt the warmth too. My Gratitude Journal is going well- I really like doing it. It reminds me to be grateful for even the little things. I actually did organize something on Day Three. I cleaned out Willow’s clothes drawer, putting summer clothes in and winter clothes out. That was totally satisfying and made me feel really “together”. Day Four actually couldn’t happen until Mother’s Day when Papa Tree had the kids for the whole day. He was the Parent Expert for the day. Funny enough, that day was the first one all week that Birch didn’t have a meltdown. So cool! I didn’t even try Day Five’s goal: accepting that I can’t be in control of everything. I swear I will try that this week. All in all, I feel like I did okay with my goals. The most important thing I learned is that I can affect how I feel by changing what I do and say for the day. Now, if I can just keep it up!
If you want to read the full article which has some helpful quotes from some great authors and more fleshed out thoughts visit this link……
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Oh, this is fabulous! I love that you did that, and think it’s really such a good idea. Happy mother’s day to you!!