Raise your hand if you are struggling to get back into the swing of "real life" post holiday break. MAN is that a tough transition. Why does life/work seem so much harder when you've had a break from "real" for such a short time???
I've been pretty bummed this week following the relaxing 2 weeks off of work. I've even had a few work colleagues ask me how I'm doing... Guess I'm not hiding it as well as I thought? Work is full-bore crazy and full of fires I can't figure out how to put out. The weather has been a complete inconvenience this week to accomplishing a busy schedule and I had BOTH girl scout troop meetings mid-week.
Ironically my little quote box on the kitchen windowsill has been displaying this message all week:
"Now and then its good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just BE happy" ~ Guillaume Apollinaire
And that has been a message I've taken to heart and have been working to live each day this week to get me through. When I walked away from work each night I told myself I wasn't going to think or worry about things because that didn't solve any problems and only made me more ineffective the next day. So instead each night I did something to BE happy.
Monday night? I ran on treadmill (sort of happy) while watching Sex in the City (VERY HAPPY, much laughing!!!) Seriously, when I watched this series originally it did not hit near the nerve that it does now that I'm a single woman in my mid-30s! They SO HAD IT RIGHT!
Tuesday night I played legos with Bella and cooked supper with the kids, yay for sticking to New Years resolutions for at least the first week!
Wed night I had my Daisy meeting. Sometimes the pre-work to meeting can be a chore when life is at its busiest, but getting to spend an hour with 7 enthusiastic kindergartners? Salve to my soul. LOVE these girls! I followed up the meeting with some knitting and Downtown Abbey. I call this nite a big win!!
Tonight? My Juniors meeting. I love my older girls too, although as they approach pre-teen they are a bit less enthusiastic? The extra special part of Thursday night Junior meeting is that normally Bella is at her dad's and I don't see her for several days. The meeting allows me an hour and a half window to suck up some loving on my girl/my lifeline.
And tonight? I had one of those moments that just shows how God is still holding me in his hands. In the midst of these doldrums, a dear friend brought me a Christmas gift to the girl scout meeting. I opened it when I got home and it was a jar full of "kind notes". Inspirational notes that you can pull from daily when you need something to lift your spirits. Ali, thank you so much for this present, I can't tell you how much it meant and how much it helped.
Tomorrow I'm going to try to pay that gift forward to someone else. The unexpected gifts are sometimes the most needed.
We also have the post-holiday funk after 2 weeks off work. Monday was so very hard.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great gift! Joe's mom received a similar gift from her karate club kids to open through her cancer treatments. Some of them are a riot and good for a laugh ("don't forget the toilet paper").
One extra little "pick-me-up" is to buy fresh flowers next time you get groceries. Makes for a nice little "lift" when seeing them.
Love ya!